[Treatment of habitual shoulder dislocation with the Brückner binding method]

101 patients with recurrent dislocation of the shoulder joint, who had undergone the Brückner-plasty between 1974 and 1981 were followed up. Good and very good results were obtained in 33.7%, moderate ones in 13.8% and poor ones in 52.8%. When following-up 135 operations, 49.0% of redislocations could be observed. Despite of its many advantages this method should in future only be practised in old people and children or in cases without the Hill-Sachs- and the Bankart-lesion.