[quote]Massif wrote:
Magarhe wrote:
If the doctor said “go ahead and keep lifting weights”, and you lifted like an idiot with bad technique, and you injured yourself, then you could sue the doctor.
Don’t mistake lack of knowledge for unwillingness to take the risk when they cannot be responsible for what you do out there. They don’t know if you know what you are doing.
I have spoken with 6 different doctors about my spine and one of them, a whole one, mentioned anything about rehab, and this was only after I specifically asked him about it.
A doctor isn’t going to tell you to go back and deadlift because that isn’t his specialty. The problem is is that none of them admit that they know fuck all about weight training and then refer you to a specialist.
I’m about to get an attack of the fucking rage here. I did all the right things. I went to a doctor and asked for an MRI so I could then go to a rehab guru and get shit sorted out. Guess what? you can’t get an MRI without a specialist’s referral in Australia. And the only way to get a referral is to get an xray done. So even though I know an xray is fucking worthless, I have to fork out money for that.
I take the results back to my doctor and she looks at it and says “yep, you have back problems. You should go and see a specialist”. It takes me two months to get into the specialist’s office. When I get there, he says that the xray is worthless and that I should have got an MRI. So he sends me down to get an MRI and a nuclear scan done.
Another month goes by and I get the results and take them back to the specialist. He says “yep, you’ve ruptured a disc”. I say no shit, I told you that a month ago. He says that the best course of action is to do nothing for 3 months.
Three months go by and I see him for a follow up meeting. He asks me how I am going. I say “Shithouse. I have lost three inches off my legs, 10 kilos in bodyweight and I’ve put two inches on my waist from not being able to train”. He smiles and says “Well you would have got fat and weak as you got older anyway”.
The only reason that I got a referral to a rehab guy was that I threatened the specialist with defenestration if he didn’t. All up, this experience has cost me $2,500 and six months of my time for something that I asked for in the beginning.
Doctors can suck my dick.[/quote]
Great Post. WORD!