Dislocations Injuries in New Jersey. Do you have dislocated finger, kneecap, jaw, hips, elbow, foot, and shoulders? Dislocations is a joint injury where the bones that form the joint are displaced of their normal position and disconnected. 

There are many ways how your children, teens, and adults get dislocations. Whatever the causes are, urgent care can help to treat it.

Among of the reasons of dislocations are trauma from falls, sports injuries, car accidents, other accidents.

Additionally, dislocations have resulted from repetitive stress, joint instability, weak muscles and ligaments, underlying conditions and spontaneous dislocations.

Dislocations Injuries in New Jersey

There was a study in United Sates about the cases of dislocations.

According to National Library of Medicine

A total of 46,855 shoulder dislocations were identified in the NEISS database, representing a national estimate of 1,915,975 dislocations (mean 25.2 per 100,000 person-years). The mean patient age was 35.3 years. More than half of the dislocations (52.5%) were sports-related, and basketball (16.4%), American football (15.6%), and cycling (9%) were the sports most commonly associated with dislocation. Most dislocations (72.1%) occurred in men. 

The above results are all about Shoulder Dislocation Treated at Emergency Departments in the United States Between 1997 and 2021. Imagine the other parts that are dislocated! The statistics of dislocations is complex cases that need further recordings or data gathering.

Meanwhile, falls are the leading cause of death due to injury among persons 65 years and older in New Jersey according to DOH NJ. Take note that falls are one of the ways how your child, teens, and adults get dislocations injuries.

Watch the video clip below on the actual data of falls.

It is not yet clear why dislocations cases are not yet accurately recorded in New Jersey. Looking at the data above, dislocations cases are not yet reported completely due to a number of causes.

If you feel that you have dislocations or any weird injury you can’t explain, go to these locations in New Jersey nearest to you.

TIPS AND WARNINGS:

• Dislocations are either a minor or a serious injury. You must go to any urgent care to diagnose the severity of dislocations before it’s too late.
• You can only identify if it is dislocation after an x-ray and / or physical examination by your doctor so never assume that you have dislocations.
• Teach and remind your child, teens and adult to be careful all the time specially to activities with extreme situation.
• Prevention is better than cure once and for all!