Outcomes and sex differences following instability in the current literature
| Author/year | # of ABR patients Male:female | Outcomes | Sex differences |
| Largacha et al (2006)17 | 233 167:66 | SST and SF-36 | Females with increased functional deficits on SST and poorer comfort score on SF-36 |
| Flinkkilä et al (2010)12 | 182 132:50 | Recurrent instability | Recurrent instability in 27/98 males and 6/43 females |
| Kaipel et al (2010)14 | 36 24:12 | Constant-Murley | Females showed a significantly decreased Constant-Murley score and more positive postoperative apprehension |
| Hovelius et al (2011)18 | 88 68:20 | WOSI, SSV and DASH | Female shoulders trended towards worse scores. The difference was significant only for the DASH score (p=0.009) |
| Blomquist et al (2012)19 | 369 M:F not reported | WOSI | No discussion of sex differences |
| Cameron et al (2013)20 | 714 630:84 | Recurrent instability | No discussion of sex differences |
| Marshall et al (2017)7 | 173 151:22 | Recurrent instability | No discussion of sex differences |
| Nakagawa et al (2017)10 | 123 110:13 | Recurrent instability | No discussion of sex differences |
DASH, Disabilities of the Arm, Shoulder and Hand; SF-36, 36-Item Short Form Survey; SST, Simple Shoulder Test; SSV, Subjective Shoulder Value; WOSI, Western Ontario Shoulder Instability Index.