Surgical approach to Bankart injury

  Many patients, even non-orthopedic surgeons, do not understand the surgical approach to Bankart injury, let alone the surgical approach to Bankart injury with shoulder arthroscopy.  Let’s take a look at the diagram below to understand the surgical approach to Bankart injury.  It is worth mentioning that with the rapid development of shoulder technology, the treatment of glenoid labral injuries has also progressed greatly.  Bankart injury is an injury to the anterior glenoid and joint capsule; SLAP injury: injury to the anterosuperior glenoid, around the long head stop of the biceps tendon.  Access: posterior superior approach, anterior superior approach, anterior inferior approach.  Microscopic operation: routine microscopic examination, observation of the injury site, further clarification of the presence of the joint capsule and rotator cuff injury, etc.; observation of the glenoid labrum injury, the extent and degree of injury, and cleaning; wound cleaning, formation of a new wound with fresh blood flow, peeling off the glenoid labrum until the posterior muscle tissue is seen; taking the plasma knife for positioning, marking the extent of the injury, marking it in the range of 2 to 6 points.