My feeling is if a doctor doesn't understand athletes, their will and their stronger than average bodies they're going to play CYA with the ultimate level of caution. My son said the doctor asked why it's so important to get back on the field during the offseason (after summer) when he still has his senior year of high school to play before "he tries out for college baseball in two years."quote:Originally posted by LTDad:quote:Originally posted by RJM:
... I asked my son if the ortho looks like a nerd or an athlete. He said a nerd. I told him we need to get him to a sports orthopedic specialist...
Wow... So if he "looked like an athlete" you would take his advice at face value and be less concerned about getting him to a sports ortho specialist? Again...wow.
My son was so freaked out by that statement he called from the doctor's office while his mother was scheduling the MRI. Since that time I got a recommendation from a collegiate athlete's dad to have my son's MRI reviewed a facility that's the sports orthopedic specialists for several college sports programs in the area.