[Treatment of anterior shoulder instability. Arthroscopic thermal capsulorraphy and Bankart Technique].

We treated 38 shoulders with Bankart technique and thermal capsulorraphy, and evaluated clinical results at a mean of 23 months. Arthroscopy demonstrated a Bankart lesion in 28 shoulders, and anteroinferior capsular laxity, without a Bankart lesion in 10 shoulders. For the remainder inferior capsular redundancy, capsulorrhaphy was carried out in the area of the axillary recess.