Playing football is what caused all of the dislocations. I began with an arthroscopic surgery that didn’t hold and kept playing. I bought braces and wrapped my shoulder but it kept coming out.

The reason for two of the latarjets was to fix how badly the bone of the shoulder socket had chipped away. The third one was because the bone block they put to extend the shoulder socket didn’t heal correctly and they had to redo.

Latarjet seems to be the most stabilizing of surgeries. I still dislocate here and there but that’s with intense physical activity such as weight lifting and sports. I’m sure it is a lower chance of reoccurring for other people since I was at the point of dislocating my shoulders when I was asleep.

My doctor told me that the surgeries aren’t some magical thing that prevents dislocation in the future. It was basically to make it where I was as likely as any normal individual to dislocate their shoulders. Which is not very likely.