Questions to ask sports medicine doctor?

OK, so I decided to bite the bullet and get my ankles checked out -
turns out there's a sports medicine specialty clinic near me that my
insurance covers. Cool. So I have an appointment with one of the doctors
there. Now, I'm assuming that she probably doesn't know much about
fencing in particular, but I'm just happy to be seeing someone who
presumably knows how to work with athletes.

Does anyone have any suggestions for questions that it might be
particularly useful to ask, or things that I should remember to point
out?

--Holly

You would be suprised what a PT knows -- when I went to my PT for a
non-fencing related injury, when they said that I had a non-normal foot
angulation, they asked to as why -- I said maybe from fencing -- they said
that they have had several fencers, and they never saw this extreme -- not
even with ballerinas.

Just mention the fencing, and let them take it from there.



"Holly E. Ordway" wrote:

> OK, so I decided to bite the bullet and get my ankles checked out -
> turns out there's a sports medicine specialty clinic near me that my
> insurance covers. Cool. So I have an appointment with one of the doctors
> there. Now, I'm assuming that she probably doesn't know much about
> fencing in particular, but I'm just happy to be seeing someone who
> presumably knows how to work with athletes.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions for questions that it might be
> particularly useful to ask, or things that I should remember to point
> out?
>
> --Holly

What I do -- whether they want me to or not -- is show them the
on-guard stance and the lunge, so that they can understand the kind of
forces we're putting on our joints.

--Delia

"Holly E. Ordway" <OUTordwayWITHTHIS@comcast.net> wrote in message news:<Xns93FED7AAD3B505439754hjkgfdjio5408@206.127 .4.25>...
> OK, so I decided to bite the bullet and get my ankles checked out -
> turns out there's a sports medicine specialty clinic near me that my
> insurance covers. Cool. So I have an appointment with one of the doctors
> there. Now, I'm assuming that she probably doesn't know much about
> fencing in particular, but I'm just happy to be seeing someone who
> presumably knows how to work with athletes.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions for questions that it might be
> particularly useful to ask, or things that I should remember to point
> out?
>
> --Holly

dmturner@dmturner.org (Delia M. Turner) wrote in
news:a02e0196.0309230312.24125043@posting.google.c om:

> What I do -- whether they want me to or not -- is show them the
> on-guard stance and the lunge, so that they can understand the kind of
> forces we're putting on our joints.

Good idea, thanks.

--Holly