The art of diagnosis in the mystery shoulder; investigating the mystery shoulder; profit & loss - an account of the present state of shoulder arthroscopy; impingement - needle, scope or scalpel; the management of rotator-cuff tears - tricks of the trade; the young sportsman with traumatic recurrent dislocation; the teenager with atraumatic shoulder instability; frozen shoulder; stepping stones towards the ideal shoulder replacement; the acromioclavicular joint; the patient with sudden swelling at the sternoclavicular joint; management strategies for two- and three-part proximal humeral fractures; the four-part fracture - rebuild or replace?; fractures of the clavecle - neglected or abused?; the fractured scapula; paralysis and dystrophy around the shoulder.