Welcome to this week’s Urgent Bite. Today we look at a gentle yet effective way to reduce Anterior Shoulder Dislocations. It is a single operator technique and requires no sedation so could prove handy in the Urgent Care setting. It is called the Cunningham Technique and you can see it explained by the creator in the You Tube link below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9HjtQr0c64
Life in the Fast Lane article – https://lifeinthefastlane.com/cunninghams-shoulder-relocation/
Original Paper describing the Technique – https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14992071