Josh Maher's Blog » Entries tagged with "Medical Case Study"
Brace For It
For all of you who are interested in the status of my arm surgery. After eight weeks of wearing braces on my arm, I have finally been released of all braces and am 80% of the way back to full rotation!! Needless to say typing is easier, sleeping is easier, and of course I have permission to go for runs again so am slowly ramping back up and letting my legs remember how fun running can be. Ok, so that sounds pretty boring – blah blah – getting my arm brace off is way more exciting to me and all the people who are tired of me whining about my discomfort. The cool thing is that in talking with the Doc, I found out that not only was my case presented … Read entire article »
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UW Case Study
I had my checkin with the surgeon yesterday for the procedure I had done on June 9th (interposition arthoplasty w/an allographed tendon). He was sorry about the difficulties with pain management and recovery process, but was happy to prescribe whatever I needed and wanted to ensure things were healing on good timetable. The visit was interesting, this time there were a lot more medical assistants swarming around and coming in for a look. I know UWMC is a teaching facility, but it was weird the amount of people interested in my arm. After all they were just taking a splint off, getting X-rays, and generally evaluating the healing process. One of the many MAs took the anchor off my arm with all sorts joy and pain on my part. After a … Read entire article »
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