UMEM Educational Pearls

Title: What's the Diagnosis? Case by Dr. Jackie Wnek and Dr. Jonathan Hoover

Posted: 2/2/2015 by Haney Mallemat, MD
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Patient presents with right shoulder pain following minor trauma. What's the diagnosis....and what's the Cunningham technique?

Anterior shoulder dislocation

Cunningham Technique

A technique for shoulder reduction that typically does not require sedation.
Relies on proper positioning of the patient and gentle massage of the biceps muscle while gentle traction is applied to the antecubital fossa
Click here for a step by step tutorial on the technique and click here for videos on the technique

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