Re: Keith's knee injury how could any doctor - Sitcoms Online Message Boards

Ireneparalegal · 05-10-2006, 02:06 PM

tell a patient WHILE THEIR KNEE IS IN A CAST, what the prognosis is??? I am no doctor, but i know that a doctor wouldn't give a prognosis like the one Keith received while the patient was still in a cast! Usually they wait until a few weeks after the removal of the cast, they try therapy, and other methods before telling someone devastating news like that.

Brieannas21 · 05-10-2006, 02:15 PM

I think it would all depend on how bad the break was. When I broke my wrist the doctor told me that I wouldn't be able to bend my wrist back, only to a certain point, and he was right.

Ireneparalegal · 05-10-2006, 02:18 PM

i due to have wrist surgery myself in several weeks...my doctor told me what may or may not occur after...but he wasn't definite.

when I had my back surgery, I was immobilized from my chest down for three months. I felt like the surgery didn't work...the orthopedic surgeon told me we must wait until I was no longer wearing that "thingamajig", try therapy, pool exercises before he could be definite whether the spine would be the same again.

CWDogg · 05-10-2006, 06:10 PM

The people who wrote this obviously didn't follow sports because the way they wrote Keiths situation is nothing close to how it would happen in real life .

catlover79 · 10-01-2007, 06:14 PM

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Originally Posted by CWDogg

The people who wrote this obviously didn't follow sports because the way they wrote Keiths situation is nothing close to how it would happen in real life .

Very true. Besides, this was the late 1970s, before sports medicine and physical therapy and such became the norm.

05-10-2006, 02:06 PM	#1
Ireneparalegal LEGAL SPICE ;) Forum Legend Join Date: Jul 25, 2005 Location: OXNARD, CA - WHERE THE DALLAS COWBOYS TRAIN & PRACTICE Posts: 38,691	Re: Keith's knee injury how could any doctor tell a patient WHILE THEIR KNEE IS IN A CAST, what the prognosis is??? I am no doctor, but i know that a doctor wouldn't give a prognosis like the one Keith received while the patient was still in a cast! Usually they wait until a few weeks after the removal of the cast, they try therapy, and other methods before telling someone devastating news like that.
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05-10-2006, 02:15 PM	#2
Brieannas21 Member Forum Fanatic Join Date: Apr 05, 2004 Location: Texas Posts: 9,792	I think it would all depend on how bad the break was. When I broke my wrist the doctor told me that I wouldn't be able to bend my wrist back, only to a certain point, and he was right.

05-10-2006, 02:18 PM	#3
Ireneparalegal LEGAL SPICE ;) Forum Legend Join Date: Jul 25, 2005 Location: OXNARD, CA - WHERE THE DALLAS COWBOYS TRAIN & PRACTICE Posts: 38,691	i due to have wrist surgery myself in several weeks...my doctor told me what may or may not occur after...but he wasn't definite. when I had my back surgery, I was immobilized from my chest down for three months. I felt like the surgery didn't work...the orthopedic surgeon told me we must wait until I was no longer wearing that "thingamajig", try therapy, pool exercises before he could be definite whether the spine would be the same again.

05-10-2006, 06:10 PM	#4
CWDogg Member Frequent Poster Join Date: Jul 04, 2005 Posts: 280	The people who wrote this obviously didn't follow sports because the way they wrote Keiths situation is nothing close to how it would happen in real life .