another boot post

25/04/2014 06:45

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another boot post

I might be the worst patient ever. When I went to the doctor about my foot/ankle and the nerve pain shooting up my leg, I pretty much said "I will run in two weeks, can you tell me that it's just soft tissue and nerve, give me a boot, maybe a steroid injection, and send me on my way?" Turns out, my webMD degree hasn't been updated and steroid injections are a no-go for the feet and ankles (at least as a first course of treatment) because they increase the likely hood of tendon rupture. I was spot on with knowing it was a nerve thing (which shocked him because he said he usually doesn't see it) because I had Tinel's sign, he agreed to the boot, and kind of rolled...

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