Torn ACL
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Well, really sorry to hear that. It hurts, I know.
One bright side...ACL is better than ACL+MCL, and ACL tends to rehab much quicker than it used to. In your part of the world, there's bound to be a guy that specializes in athletes, particularly college and pro. He should be very familiar with doing knees on big guys and any problems that go with it.
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Oh man! You are really the orthopedic nightmare aren’t you?
Are they talking surgery, or just some kind of rehab?
I will talk to them in a few minutes, I'm not sure. I assume surgery. It would be a miracle of the body's ability to heal if I didn't need it. But miracles do happen.
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It’s always something.
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I was going to post about my wrenched neck and how I can’t turn my head more than 5 degrees to the left or right but you win…
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How’s your mobility in the mean time? Can you walk at all?
one does not walk per se. One attempts to stabilize the injured leg by locking the knee joint (maybe evolution helped with this) and then you pray you don't fall.
Ugh. I hope you get great care and heal quickly.
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It’s always something.
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Thanks Ax and all.
Today I had my ortho appointment. Unfortunately there was a prerequisite nobody informed me of, which is that I needed the MRI image disk in hand in order to be seen. Oops. It consistently amazes me the degree to which one needs to direct one's own care in the American health system. So I went to the MRI center to get my copy of my record, so I can hand deliver it to the ortho on the next scheduled appointment, in about a week. It would be wonderful if this stuff was automated, but due to some unholy combination of lawyers, money, and people's abject terror of dying, the health care system in this country has approximately 50 year old technology.
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Today I had my ortho appointment. Unfortunately there was a prerequisite nobody informed me of, which is that I needed the MRI image disk in hand in order to be seen. Oops..... So I went to the MRI center to get my copy of my record, so I can hand deliver it to the ortho on the next scheduled appointment, in about a week.
I'm surprised that the ortho's office didn't advise you to bring any imaging that you'd already had.
It would be wonderful if this stuff was automated, but due to some unholy combination of lawyers, money, and people's abject terror of dying, the health care system in this country has approximately 50 year old technology.
It would be even more wonderful if the ortho's office could access the MRI images remotely without you having to chase down the CD (what, wait...CD?) to hand to him.
This kind of BS is one of the reasons why Mrs. George and I have consolidated all of our care to one facility, where everything would be immediately available to every doc.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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Today I had my ortho appointment. Unfortunately there was a prerequisite nobody informed me of, which is that I needed the MRI image disk in hand in order to be seen. Oops..... So I went to the MRI center to get my copy of my record, so I can hand deliver it to the ortho on the next scheduled appointment, in about a week.
I'm surprised that the ortho's office didn't advise you to bring any imaging that you'd already had.
when I was referred to the ortho by my primary physician, who diagnosed the ACL based on the images, I figured the images were available. But apparently unless the ortho and the primary are in the same building or network or what have you, the ortho could not care less what the primary physician might think. But it's mostly a matter of ridiculous process. Injured people should not be conscripted as couriers, but here we are.
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That's aggravating - on every level. It's easy enough to slip this time of year and torque things in ways that weren't meant to be. A friend who works out 3 hours every day managed to rip quad tendons from both knees while going down some steps. Hopefully, your next visit with the doc is a bit more productive. It is terrible that they didn't specify requirements before the visit.
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Thanks Ax and all.
Today I had my ortho appointment. Unfortunately there was a prerequisite nobody informed me of, which is that I needed the MRI image disk in hand in order to be seen. Oops. It consistently amazes me the degree to which one needs to direct one's own care in the American health system. So I went to the MRI center to get my copy of my record, so I can hand deliver it to the ortho on the next scheduled appointment, in about a week. It would be wonderful if this stuff was automated, but due to some unholy combination of lawyers, money, and people's abject terror of dying, the health care system in this country has approximately 50 year old technology.
HIPAA and no common platform.
