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Whiplash-like injury resulting in shoulder arthrodesis. A rare case of complex regional pain syndrome

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In this case report, the progression of the disease in a 14-years-old girl is described. Based on a minor cervical hyperextension and -flexion traumatization experienced during a basketball game she developed the symptoms of a non-reducible anterior shoulder instability and a subsequent thoracic scoliosis. Other symptoms resembled the clinical picture of a complex regional pain syndrome. Conservative and stabilizing surgical interventions to the shoulder turned out to be obsolete. Hence, at the end of a series of various treatment procedures, arthrodetic surgery had to be performed to leave the young patient painfree, yet with a functional impairment.

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  1. Clinic for Orthopedic Surgery and Sports Traumatology, Aachener Str. 445-449, 50933, Cologne, Germany

    T. Schneider & J. Schmidt

  2. Institute for Sport Orthopedics, German Sport University, 50927, Cologne, Germany

    W. Menke & H. -J. Appell

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Schneider, T., Schmidt, J., Menke, W. et al. Whiplash-like injury resulting in shoulder arthrodesis. A rare case of complex regional pain syndrome. Eur J Orthop Surg Traumatol 10, 265–268 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01682141

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