The Long Head of the Biceps Bristow-Bankart Procedure for Anterior Shoulder Instability

Jose Carlos Garcia Jr; Renan J Belchior; Marcelo B D Mello; Alvaro M Cardoso Jr

doi:10.1016/j.eats.2019.06.005

The Long Head of the Biceps Bristow-Bankart Procedure for Anterior Shoulder Instability

Arthrosc Tech. 2019 Sep 21;8(10):e1185-e1191. doi: 10.1016/j.eats.2019.06.005. eCollection 2019 Oct.

Authors

Jose Carlos Garcia Jr¹, Renan J Belchior¹, Marcelo B D Mello¹, Alvaro M Cardoso Jr¹

Affiliation

¹ NAEON Institute, São Paulo, Brazil.

Abstract

Surgical procedures to treat anterior shoulder instability are basically split into 2 groups: those for patients with important bone loss and those for patients with no bone loss. However, there is a gray zone between these procedures in which a bone graft would not be needed but bone grafting would result in a desirable improvement in stabilizing mechanisms. We describe a technique based on the triple soft-tissue block, Bankart reconstruction, and long head of the biceps tenodesis at the anterior glenoid rim. The long head of the biceps would add an anterior restrictor by itself, as well as by tensioning the inferior part of the subscapularis.