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Last updated Thursday, February 10, 2005
What is it?
Cohesion and adhesion
Stabilizing effect
Factors reducing effect
Stability from adhesion-cohesion is reduced by any factors that would lower either the cohesion of joint fluid (such as in inflammatory joint disease), the degree to which the joint surfaces could be wet (such as in degenerative joint disease), or the glenohumeral contact area (such as in a displaced articular surface fracture or a congenitally small glenoid).
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