MCL injury due to ski

On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 13:49:52 -0800, The Real Bev
wrote:

Gumby wrote:

wrote:
Please give me some advice. Your help will be appreciated.

1) Go see doctor

Crapshoot. Just because YOU found a good one doesn't mean that anybody
else will. As a matter of fact, the odds are against it.

This is one of the stupider things I've read in a while. Yes, there
are bad doctors out their, and even among good doctors, not all have
the skill or experience to deal with everyone's problem. But telling
someone with a severe, acute injury that seeing a doctor is a
crapshoot and they are unlilely to find a good one is just plain
wrong.

See a doctor. Ask aroudn to find a good one. Be inquisitive and a
critical thinker about what they tell you.

JT

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John Forrest Tomlinson wrote:

On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 13:49:52 -0800, The Real Bev
wrote:

Gumby wrote:

wrote:
Please give me some advice. Your help will be appreciated.

1) Go see doctor

Crapshoot. Just because YOU found a good one doesn't mean that anybody
else will. As a matter of fact, the odds are against it.

This is one of the stupider things I've read in a while. Yes, there
are bad doctors out their, and even among good doctors, not all have
the skill or experience to deal with everyone's problem. But telling
someone with a severe, acute injury that seeing a doctor is a
crapshoot and they are unlilely to find a good one is just plain
wrong.

See a doctor. Ask aroudn to find a good one. Be inquisitive and a
critical thinker about what they tell you.

I agree. Nonetheless, "Go see a doctor" isn't guaranteed to be any
better solution to the problem than the words of random strangers on
usenet.

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Cheers, Bev
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The Real Bev wrote:

Gumby wrote:

wrote:

Please give me some advice. Your help will be appreciated.

1) Go see doctor


Crapshoot. Just because YOU found a good one doesn't mean that anybody
else will.

Don't you think it's probably better than asking some random strangers
for advice on the Internet?

--
Mary Malmros
Some days you're the windshield, other days you're the bug.

Going to a doctor is VIRTUALLY guaranteed to be smarter than asking random
people for advice with no way of knowing whether any of them even knows what
they're talking about.

The only way it wouldn't be is if (a) your post were to be answered by a
doctor who was so brilliant he could diagnose and treat injuries better
based on a two-sentence cross-language description than an ordinary doctor
would after actually examining the patient and (b) you somehow could
distinguish between his good advice and the (possibly) well-meaning, but
ignorant advice of others.

If you're worried that even experts are wrong sometimes, rather than ask
anyone for advice, do whatever seems best to you. There's no reason to think
you're less qualified than arbitrary advisers, and at least you can actually
see and feel your injury. If that doesn't seem like a good idea, just act
randomly until the injury either goes away or kills you.

On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 20:12:54 -0500, Mary Malmros wrote:

The Real Bev wrote:

Gumby wrote:

wrote:

Please give me some advice. Your help will be appreciated.

1) Go see doctor


Crapshoot. Just because YOU found a good one doesn't mean that anybody
else will.

Don't you think it's probably better than asking some random strangers
for advice on the Internet?


Of course, at the very least you can sue a Dr. :-)

Ben

On 9 Jan 2005 04:07:41 -0800, " wrote:

I got medial collateral ligament (MCL) injury on my right knee due to
ski. I fell on ice ground, my right knee did not hit the ice ground, My
left body fell on ice ground, and I twisted my right leg outside about
60 degree. It has been three weeks. I still have strong pain when I
move my right leg side by side. But I can move my right leg slowly back
and forth without pain. I take advil 400mg three times per day.
Since I try to avoid to put my body weight on my right foot, I have
pain and sore on right side of my body, my hip. I feel my right foot is
stiffer than a week ago.
Do I have to keep my right knee warm, exercise perhaps? How do I heal
my right knee faster? Will the knee ligaments be permanently weak or
susceptible to injury? Is it possible I can ski again? What
rehabilitation do I have to exercise?
Please give me some advice. Your help will be appreciated.


See a physician, preferably an ortho who specializes in sports injuries .

Ben