PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Alistair IW Mayne
AU  - Arpit Jariwala
TI  - Painful shoulder post fall
AID  - 10.1136/emermed-2017-207003
DP  - 2018 Mar 03
TA  - Emergency Medicine Journal
PG  - emermed-2017-207003
4099  - http://emj.bmj.com/content/early/2018/03/03/emermed-2017-207003.short
4100  - http://emj.bmj.com/content/early/2018/03/03/emermed-2017-207003.full
AB  - Clinical introduction A 32-year-old man presented to the ED after a heavy fall on his left shoulder. He presented the following day with pain and gross limitation of movement in the left shoulder. There was no history of previous injury to the left shoulder. This was his non-dominant limb and he worked in a manual occupation. He was neurovascularly intact. His initial radiographs are shown in figures 1 and 2.Figure 1 Anteroposterior radiograph (AP) radiograph of left shoulder.Figure 2 Lateral radiograph of left shoulder. Question Management options:Anterior shoulder dislocation —closed reductionAnterior shoulder dislocation—CT scanPosterior shoulder dislocation—closed reductionPosterior shoulder dislocation—CT scanQuestion