Where I grew up, with a comprehensive taxpayer funded healthcare system that works I believe standard is you are given the option of surgery after dislocating y

Where I grew up, with a comprehensive taxpayer funded healthcare system that works I believe standard is you are given the option of surgery after dislocating your shoulder 3 times. The thinking is a lot of people dislocate their shoulder, it pops back in with or without help and heals with no long-term damage. For a lot of patients it never happens again and surgery is not needed. However, each time you dislocate your shoulder it gets easier to dislocate and is more likely to do doing damage that won't heal. So, don't go in for shoulder surgery until you are showing a pattern of dislocating it or have other lasting damage that requires repair.