That is all.
That is all.
Doctors are not the fountains of knowledge people think they are. An ortho advised me to stop running 15 years ago and here I am still running without any issues.
Negativo wrote:
Doctors are not the fountains of knowledge people think they are. An ortho advised me to stop running 15 years ago and here I am still running without any issues.
Good point.
Never go to a doctor. Always go to letsrun.
Negativo wrote:
Doctors are not the fountains of knowledge people think they are.
Anonymous internet posters are? Your odds are a billion times better with a doctor that was actually examined you.
I went to two doctors for my injury and neither of them could give me real-life experiences and actually stories of recovering from an injury. All they do is tell you to rest.
Takes time, money to go to a doctor. If you can solve the problem without one you should.
go to a doctor wrote:
Negativo wrote:Doctors are not the fountains of knowledge people think they are.
Anonymous internet posters are? Your odds are a billion times better with a doctor that was actually examined you.
Not true, LetsRun has better info on many running-specific topics
As of last spring, one of my daughter's was down to two sports: T&F and S&D. April, my daughter went to doctor for Achilles strain as T&F coach recommended. Doctor told my daughter to quit running and focus on swimming due to fewer injuries. Another T&F coach told me swimming sans proper calf stretching shortens Achilles due to toes pointed down while swimming. Coach stated shortened Achilles leads to Achilles strains. I like the coach's advice who stated stretch calves during swimming than doctor who said quit T&F.
go to a doctor wrote:
Negativo wrote:Doctors are not the fountains of knowledge people think they are.
Anonymous internet posters are? Your odds are a billion times better with a doctor that was actually examined you.
For resolving running injuries (and many other chronic health related issues) you will have a one in million chance of finding a doctor that is going to help to make things better and many may make things worse. Asking these message boards for advice on running injuries will be several orders of magnitude more likely to yield useful advice as opposed to visiting a doctor.
For emergency situation health issues such as heart attacks, serious infections, strokes, embolisms, car wreck injuries, etc you are of course much more likely to get life saving help from a doctor than asking these message boards.
Doctors are stupid, and dangerous.
No one in their right mind would keep going to them.
injury prone runner wrote:
go to a doctor wrote:Anonymous internet posters are? Your odds are a billion times better with a doctor that was actually examined you.
For resolving running injuries (and many other chronic health related issues) you will have a one in million chance of finding a doctor that is going to help to make things better and many may make things worse. Asking these message boards for advice on running injuries will be several orders of magnitude more likely to yield useful advice as opposed to visiting a doctor.
For emergency situation health issues such as heart attacks, serious infections, strokes, embolisms, car wreck injuries, etc you are of course much more likely to get life saving help from a doctor than asking these message boards.
The number of medical Doctors in the United States from what I can gather is somewhere just over 1 million. Do you really think that only one Doctor in the United States could help someone with a running injury? That seems pretty foolish.
Good times are killing me wrote:
The number of medical Doctors in the United States from what I can gather is somewhere just over 1 million. Do you really think that only one Doctor in the United States could help someone with a running injury? That seems pretty foolish.
I would guess there are 9 doctors who could help. I didn't run for 18 years because none of the "specialists" knew what was wrong with me. Turned out to just be extremely tight hip flexors that were going into spasms. That was 1984. Finally able to run 3 to 4 miles every other day in 2002. Three months later, the same injury and I could hardly walk. Bumped around on the internet and somebody from Coolrunning told me exactly what my problem was and where to go for a solution.
I diagnose all my running injuries on the internet. You can easily narrow down the symptoms to a couple things. Most don't want to hear this, but rest is usually the best remedy along with massage if the injury is muscular which most are. The mistake people make though is quitting running all together. Your injury most likely occurred from overuse so you want to underuse for a while and those injuries will go away. The worst thing to do is to completely quit running.
Obamacare has made it to expensive to go.
HardLoper wrote:
go to a doctor wrote:Anonymous internet posters are? Your odds are a billion times better with a doctor that was actually examined you.
Not true, LetsRun has better info on many running-specific topics
Doctors know nothing running-specific at all. I've gotten in to see ones that treat pros, they make a big snow job and then try to sell you orthotics and surgery. Basic sports-med stuff from decades ago, much of it is false, but it's all they've got.
In medicine, only PT's will really get into the nuts and bolts of what causes an injury and try seriously to fix and prevent them. But they're not doctors. Medicine doesn't consider mobility important enough for that.
Sfxproblem wrote:
I went to two doctors for my injury and neither of them could give me real-life experiences and actually stories of recovering from an injury. All they do is tell you to rest.
And this is usually the right advice. I have friends who went in for surgery and were left unable to run again.
Bad Wigins wrote:
HardLoper wrote:Not true, LetsRun has better info on many running-specific topics
Doctors know nothing running-specific at all. I've gotten in to see ones that treat pros, they make a big snow job and then try to sell you orthotics and surgery. Basic sports-med stuff from decades ago, much of it is false, but it's all they've got.
In medicine, only PT's will really get into the nuts and bolts of what causes an injury and try seriously to fix and prevent them. But they're not doctors. Medicine doesn't consider mobility important enough for that.
Exactly, recently an orthopedist told us my son's hip pain may be a virus and recommended motrin. The PT is stretching out his tight hips, sartorius etc...and strengthening his adductors and posterior tibialis
Voltaire said: "The role of the physican is to entertain the patient while the body heals itself"
Doctors know very little about health. If they did, they wouldn't force every aspiring doctor to sleep 2 hours a day while learning the ropes. They also wouldn't prescribe drugs pushed by their favorite big-pharma rep for everything under the sun. Doctors have either actively contributed to the opioid epidemic or at the least have been complicit.
It is a noble profession that attracts a lot of people who want to make good money and be able to tell everyone they are doctors.
If you have medical questions, ask the hive mind. If you want a doctors opinion, find one that has been running for a long time and deals with actual athletes. It's not easy to do that.
Nah, no, no, no. No doctors for me. A bunch of lackeys and yes-men all towing the company line.
After 3 decades in medical management I will give you this advice;
If you are a runner;
Go to a doctor who is a runner, go to a dentist that is a runner, use an accountant that is a runner, retain a lawyer that is a runner, definitely only see a PT who is a runner,
Otherwise you will not be understood, and not be correctly served.