Me and my chronically unstable shoulder

I decided to write about my experience with the Latarjet procedure because I found it very hard to find information from patients that underwent this (still today) very specific treatment of chronic recurrent shoulder instability. I am 32 years old and live in Frankfurt, Germany. I personally have had a long history of shoulder instability. It all started when I was 17 and dislocated my right shoulder for the first time while playing Badminton in physical education at school. And no, I was not falling… Just performing an overhead strike with a lot of force and there went my shoulder… My teacher was shocked and didn’t know what to do so we called the ambulance who put me into full anesthesia on the spot and repositioned the shoulder. I woke up in the hospital with some pain, but the shoulder seemed to be fine to me. I underwent x-rays and MRI examination and the diagnosis was that the labrum had be torn apart and the doctors suggested to perform an arthroscopic stabilization which is...