A 21-year-old boxer recently underwent a procedure for a rare injury he sustained while playing the sport.
Balaji, the son of a taxi driver from Neyveli, is a student at a city college. He is a gold medalist at various university-level boxing competitions. He suffered a shoulder dislocation in December while participating in a competitive event.
Shoulder is a ball-and-socket joint, where a cartilage runs 360 degrees in the socket. When the shoulder dislocates, the cartilage tears. This is called a Bankart injury. For Balaji, not only did the tissue tear but the socket sustained a fracture. It is called a bony Bankart (named after the Frenchman Bankart).
