What's the difference between dislocation and subluxation?

Dislocation


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced.
  • (n.) The displacement of parts of rocks or portions of strata from the situation which they originally occupied. Slips, faults, and the like, are dislocations.
  • (n.) The act of dislocating, or putting out of joint; also, the condition of being thus displaced.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) One developed recurrent dislocation of the shoulder.
  • (2) Attempts to eliminate congenital dislocation of the hip by detecting it early have not been completely successful.
  • (3) Thirteen patients had had a posterior dislocation with an associated fracture of the femoral head located either caudad or cephalad to the fovea centralis (Pipkin Type-I or Type-II injury), one had had a posterior dislocation with associated fractures of the femoral head and neck (Pipkin Type III), two had had a posterior dislocation with associated fractures of the femoral head and the acetabular rim (Pipkin Type IV), and three had had a fracture-dislocation that we could not categorize according to the Pipkin classification.
  • (4) Eight cases of calcification following anterior dislocation of the head of the radius are described.
  • (5) Unstable subcapital fractures and dislocation fractures of the humerus can usually be set by closed reduction.
  • (6) Formation of the functional contour plaster bandage within the limits of the foot along the border of the fissure of the ankle joint with preservation of the contours of the ankles 4-8 weeks after the treatment was started in accordance with the severity of the fractures of the ankles in 95 patients both without (6) and with (89) dislocation of the bone fragments allowed to achieve the bone consolidation of the ankle fragments with recovery of the supportive ability of the extremity in 85 (89.5%) of the patients, after 6-8 weeks (7.2%) in the patients without displacement and after 10-13 weeks (11.3%) with displacement of the bone fragments of the ankles.
  • (7) Dislocation of the endoprosthesis was found in the 15 hands with unimproved abduction.
  • (8) Either reagent dislocates FAD from the holoenzyme, leaving a characteristic mercaptide derivative of the apoenzyme.
  • (9) We performed a combined one-stage approach for the treatment of eighteen spastic subluxated or dislocated hips in eleven children who had cerebral palsy.
  • (10) The authors' review of the literature did not reveal a similar case involving a dislocation of the first and second metatarsophalangeal joints.
  • (11) Ten patients gave a family history of recurrent dislocation of the patella and seven patients showed generalised joint laxity.
  • (12) In case 2, a 26-year-old man sustained an open total dislocation of the talus with a severe crush wound and impaired circulation to the foot.
  • (13) A case of unilateral anterior dislocation of the shoulder after a shock of 380 volts is presented here.
  • (14) While acromioclavicular joint injury is not uncommon, a complete posterior dislocation in which the distal clavicle penetrates and is entrapped by the trapezius muscle is among the most rare.
  • (15) In patients with spastic paraplegia presenting with recurrent dislocation of the hip, operative treatment combining a soft tissue repair and a bone block to augment the acetabulum is recommended.
  • (16) Brachial artery rupture is the usual vascular injury associated with a compound elbow dislocation.
  • (17) This fracture was isolated in one case, being in the other six cases combined with injuries, either to acromioclavicular dislocation or to fracture of the superior glenoid cavity disorder.
  • (18) The case is presented of a patient sustaining cervical spine dislocation and quadriplegia attributed to impingement upon a 3-point attachment harness restraint.
  • (19) Hypertension consequent upon increasing brain edema, and intercerebral pressure gradient which is the cause of transverse dislocation diminish with the use of a method which provides for hydrodynamic equilibrium.
  • (20) A case of simultaneous bilateral traumatic dislocation of the hip is reported.

Subluxation


Definition:

  • (n.) An incomplete or partial dislocation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We performed a combined one-stage approach for the treatment of eighteen spastic subluxated or dislocated hips in eleven children who had cerebral palsy.
  • (2) Patellar subluxation may improve substantially following either lateral release or anteromedial tibial tubercle transfer, but this study suggests that correction of subluxation is less consistent than reduction of abnormal tilt with tibial tubercle transfer or lateral release alone.
  • (3) Failure was more likely with a subluxated, tilted, or excessively thick patella or flexed femoral component.
  • (4) Midcarpal instability occurs at the triquetral-hamate joint and is characterized by a dynamic subluxation of the joint.
  • (5) Volar subluxation of the tendons of the first dorsal compartment of the wrist occurred in two patients after surgery for treatment of de Quervain's stenosing tenosynovitis.
  • (6) We also examined the effect of an external restraining force on tibial subluxation in the ACL deficient knee.
  • (7) If not enough styloid is excised, osteophytic overgrowth will occur; if too much is excised, the carpus will sublux radially.
  • (8) A higher incidence of lens subluxation, lens repositioning, corneal edema, and elevated intraocular pressure was observed in the eyes receiving STAAR silicone implants than in the eyes receiving IOLAB PMMA implants.
  • (9) A radiographic diagnosis of subluxation was made in five dogs.
  • (10) In thirty patients with subluxation of the patella, the lines were parallel in twenty-four and formed an angle open medially in six.
  • (11) The combination of triradiate epiphyseal closure and abductor muscle weakness secondary to superior gluteal nerve damage contributed to subsequent femoral head subluxation.
  • (12) The most common radiological abnormality was anterior subluxation of C1.
  • (13) Subluxation and luxation of the ulnar nerve are normally congenital and can result in not only an irritation of the nerve but also sensory loss and motor weakness.
  • (14) Five cases of subluxation and six of secondary displacement of the tubercles were noted.
  • (15) These external rotational deformities are due to two unrecognized and untreated combined deformities within the hindfoot and mid-foot: hindfoot varus and talo-navicular subluxation.
  • (16) The cause for this condition, we think, is laxity of the ulnar part of the lateral collateral ligament, which allows a transient rotatory subluxation of the ulnohumeral joint and a secondary dislocation of the radiohumeral joint.
  • (17) Only twelve (16 per cent) of the seventy-four shoulders (sixty-eight patients) that had traumatic subluxation had a good or excellent result from the exercises, compared with fifty-three (80 per cent) of the sixty-six shoulders that had atraumatic subluxation.
  • (18) Fracture-subluxation of the distal interphalangeal joint, avulsion fractures of the extensor tendon, and distal phalangeal epiphyseal injuries are excluded to regidly control the data interpretation.
  • (19) All calcaneal fractures with no Tc fractures had a plantar proximal intertarsal subluxation.
  • (20) When subluxation is suspected, an examination under anesthesia and orthroscopy are the most helpful next step.

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