My best friend is an avid marathon runner. Shas been very fortunate to avoid injury long enough to post a PR of 2:55 at Grandma’s this summer.
Three months ago she was diagnosed as having pelvic fractures; the doctor told her to stop running for six weeks and see what happened. It’s been twice that now and it hurts less when she runs, but it still hurts. She’s been doing the elliptical trainer at the gym and taking calcium.
She says that she knows there’s nothing else the doctor can do, so she’s not going to go back, she’s just going to keep doing the elliptical trainer and taking calcium and see how it goes.
Any advice for her? Is there something else a doctor can do? How about physical therapy?
She is a fool. Sports orthopedists have calcium just at the tip of their treatment bag. She should either return to the doctor, or consider a target time to reach in the wheelchair heats.
She should go back to her doctor. It really sounds like that’s what he intended after the six weeks. She may be conviinced that “she knows there’s nothing else the doctor can do” but that doesn’t make it so.
This reminds me of when my So twisted his knee, tearing both his ACL and another one (MCL?). His doctor saw him, he did PT for awhile and was still in pain. he saw a specialist who advised more PT, my SO was still in pain. He couldn’t work, it was hell - and a lot of pain for him. He finally went for a second opinion, and the specialist said immediately - surgery. So four months after the initial injury, he finally got surgery and freedom from pain. So my vote is second opinion.