Emergency medicine Australasia : EMA
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Emerg Med Australas · Feb 2011
Scapular manipulation for reduction of anterior shoulder dislocation without analgesia: results of a prospective study.
To the best of knowledge, this was the first study of scapular manipulation technique (SMT) in Asia. We conducted this prospective study to report our experiences of reducing anterior shoulder dislocation by SMT without analgesia in a large study group in Iran. ⋯ The results of our study showed that SMT even without medication is a safe, rapid and relatively painless technique in reducing anterior shoulder dislocation in the ED that might reduce medical resource utilization and can be cost-effective.