Apply ice then heat. Putting ice on your shoulder helps reduce inflammation and pain. Use a cold pack, a bag of frozen vegetables or a towel filled with ice cubes for 15 to 20 minutes at a time.
Do this every couple of hours the first day or two. After two or three days, when the pain and inflammation have improved, hot packs or a heating pad may help relax tight and sore muscles. Limit heat applications to 20 minutes at a time. Once your injury heals and you have good range of motion in your shoulder, continue exercising.
Daily shoulder stretches and a shoulder-strengthening and stability program can help prevent a recurrence of dislocation. Often, this procedure takes place in a hospital. The time it takes for full recovery depends on the severity of the injury, but most people recover within weeks or months. Most people who experience a shoulder dislocation seek immediate treatment in an emergency room, where a doctor can put the round end of the arm bone, or humerus, back into place without surgery.
Using a procedure called a closed reduction, the doctor administers local anesthesia to ease pain, then manually repositions the humerus into the shoulder socket. After a dislocated shoulder has been repositioned, or reduced, pain lessens almost immediately.
Closed reduction takes about 30 minutes to perform, and you can expect to return home with an hour of the procedure. If a shoulder has been dislocated more than once, the soft tissues that stabilize the shoulder may no longer hold the humerus firmly in the socket. This can be confirmed using diagnostic tests , such as MRI scans.
In these instances, doctors may discuss the possibility of surgery to tighten or repair the torn or stretched ligaments that hold the joint in place. Then use the ice as needed to ease pain and swelling. You may use acetaminophen or ibuprofen to control pain, unless another pain medicine was prescribed. Talk with your healthcare provider before using these medicines if you have chronic liver or kidney disease. Also talk with your provider if you have had a stomach ulcer or digestive bleeding.
Follow up with your healthcare provider, or as advised. Keeping it on for a longer time may limit your range-of-motion at the shoulder joint. If you have had several dislocations of the same shoulder, you may have permanent damage to the ligaments. Ask an orthopedic doctor about surgery to prevent another dislocation. Was this helpful? Yes No Tell us more.
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