Luxatio erecta is a rare injury and a term given to the dislocation of the shoulder
that is forced into hyperabduction causing the shoulder to subluxate and then dislocate
inferiorly with arm locked in fixed abduction. It accounts for less than 1% of all
the shoulder dislocations [
[1]
]. We present a case of traumatic inferior dislocation of the shoulder with the head
of the humerus locked in the subglenoid region without the hyperabducted posture with
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