Follow-up Visit Part 1

This is going to be one of those posts where you say "What the crap is up with Chris" but that's ok. And, if you feel that way, let me know. Maybe I am a little wacko but I have to look out for me.

Anyway, on with the post.

Hopefully you read my last post about my hip troubles. You may recall that I wasn't too terribly worried about my follow-up visit because I felt I had done enough research to understand my problem and what I needed to do moving forward. I figured I knew how the follow-up visit with the sports med doc would go: he would tell me it's torn, get me some PT (to help strengthen the hip and pelvis), load me up on Motrin scripts, tell me to come back if it gets worse, etc. etc.

It was a complete 180. Let me say that I think this doctor is great. He is supposed to be one of the top sports med guys in the area, works on the OU baseball players, stuff like that. He admitted that he hasn't really seen many (or any) hip tears but he was very familiar with the shoulder ones. Doesn't really help me, does it?

The first thing he said to me was that he consulted with a specialist and they discussed a conservative course of action: no running for 6 months. WTF? He told me that the repetitive motion of running could make it worse; he did ok me for the elliptical. Is it more or do you use that same repetitive motion for the elliptical? To told me PT would not do anything for me nor would Motrin. The only thing that he said that agreed with my research was that surgery should be the last option.

I said "Doc, I ran 9 miles yesterday. It didn't hurt anymore after that run than it did the day before when I did nothing". He responded with "Ok, so maybe it's ok to run but try to keep your runs under 3 miles". So which is it? No running or some running? Again, not knocking the guy, I just don't think he knows.

I felt I needed more options. My Mom said I should get a second opinion from her doctor. I told here that I don't want a second opinion from just some guy who knows as much as the last about it--I want an expert to tell me what I need to do. She left me her guy's business card anyway. The dude is a spine doc. I love my moms yo, but I don't think that is going to help.

So I went back on the internet.

I feel this post is getting long so I will call this a Part 1 and continue tomorrow. In this Twitter world we live in, everything has to be short and sweet.