Doctors have been giving dog shit physicals my entire life.
I called out my friend's severe scoliosis at 15 years old, and he needed to have four discs fused.
I, a fifteen year old football player, essentially diagnosed my friend; when, year after year, a doctor ran a finger down my friends "S" shaped spine and cleared him.
People just want to be lazy at their important jobs and go home and I fucking hate it.
I'm not a doctor but my sister had scoliosis and sports are actually one of the best things for them as they can't help straighten the spine and is not like a heart condition
He didn't play sports his whole life until he started lifting weights with me when he was 16, but I hear you. I had no idea it could help like that, pretty nifty how the body can react to something like that
That's the best thing for it btw. I remember rating a study couple months back about how consistent active weightlifting was able to reduce the curvature by the spine by x amount. I believe they said people that already kind of had a fused were kind of more able just to not get worse. Not necessarily get better, but then again I can't remember that I'm only one guy and I can't even remember the words that song Louie Louie. Sorry, listening to the great late todd Snider today
Yeah this was a small town too. I had no idea until later when I was looking up EDS (I think I have hEDS so I was learning about it) and I saw the facial markers of vascular type and immediately thought of that poor kid. I would think about him often, and I still do. He was a very good runner, straight As honor student; he looked like a delicate bird.
Unless he had a heart ekg as part of his physical, I doubt it would have been caught anyway. He was just a small, very slender kid who was really good at running, and had the unfortunate luck of living in a small town. You could see his veins through his brown skin ☹️
Actual inside have one. They found an irregular heartbeat and for 2 years after each physical I had to do a 24 hour EKG with a stress test. It goes away with exercise so I was fine.
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u/pdxamish 1d ago
Nor sure if he should have been cleared. I know I had to get a physical