I slipped on spilled salsa (NOT mine) in a restaurant Saturday and hit my knee on the cement floor very hard. I went in to the doctor yesterday due to the swelling, pain and not being able to bear weight. It was determined that I have a torn ACH tendon. I am now looking at physical therapy and rehab and possibly surgery. My husband spoke with the restaurant yesterday and they were horribly rude and uncooperative. I am not a “sue happy” person…I do not want damages for pain and suffering, or whatever it’s called. But I don’t feel I should be responsible for medical bills when they should have cleaned up the spilled salsa.
Any advice on what to do?
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What is wrong with me? Stinging “pins and needles” pain in both my calves.?
so to tell you a bit about my problem i’ll start with saying im a 15 year old female fairly healthy, a soccer player and had been going to physical therapy for about 3weeks earlier this month for what was said to be a “calf strain”. I am kind’ve worried because besides the constant stinging in the calves once in a while I would feel stinging in my hands. i never told my trainers though. I would describe the feeling as pins and needles. So i did some research and here are the things I think could be wrong with me.
-Claudication pain: “pain
that occurs in the legs when walking or exercising. It is usually the result of circulation problems which affects the flow of blood to the leg muscles. In severe cases, the pain may persist even when the patient is inactive”it doesn’t just sting during sports but outside of them like right now im on the couch.
-diabetes- because i also had been getting headaches and pains throughout body and other symptoms but my blood pressure is always normal so im not sure about this idea.
Peripheral neuropathy: Peripheral neuropathy is the term for damage to nerves of the peripheral nervous system, which may be caused either by diseases of the nerve or from the side-effects of systemic illness. Peripheral neuropathy is a common neurological disorder resulting from damage to the peripheral nerves. It may be caused by diseases of the nerves or as the result of systemic illnesses. (Source: excerpt from NINDS Peripheral Neuropathy Information Page: NINDS)
other info on calf burning-
Calf burning sensation (medical symptom): The skin sensation of partial numbness or “pins and needles” or a type of “burning”, “tingling” or “creeping” sensation of the skin, is known as a “paresthesia”. Symptoms may start as a tingling (paresthesia) and change to a numbness, or there may be a combination of decreased sensation (numbness) but with heightened sensations at certain times or with stimulation. Any type of tingling, burning, or numbness is usually a symptom related to a sensory nerve being damaged, diseased, or injured. Causes depend on the exact location of the paresthesia sensations, but typically include a physical nerve injury type condition (e.g. a nerve entrapment or some type of pressure being applied to a nerve directly or to the spinal attachment of that nerve), or a disease condition affecting the nerves (e.g. neuropathy, diabetic neuropathy, multiple sclerosis, diabetes, and others). Having these sensory symptoms in multiple locations, or the recurrence of similar symptoms in different locations is a hallmark symptom of multiple sclerosis, so your doctor will likely ask about the past history of similar symptoms to assess the likelihood of multiple sclerosis as a diagnosis (see symptoms of multiple sclerosis). Any of these tingling or numbness symptoms are more than just annoying; they can indicate a serious medical condition and require prompt medical diagnosis by a professional.
PLEASE HELP IM IN A GREAT DEAL OF PAIN TO THE EXTENT THAT IM CRYING i don’t know what to do and if i tell my dad he won’t do anything he will just say suck it up … im scared for my health and soccer career. thanks your help is greatly appreciated!!!
Also if you have any other ideas please share them anything that can help break the case!
I’m In Serious Glute And Right Leg Shooting Pain. Please Help Me! I’ve Suffered For Too Long.?
Feb 14
I had posterior spinal fusion on September 12, 2007 to reduce the increase on my idiopathic curve for scoliosis. The first 6 months post op were fine but now I have glute pain in my right and left sides but I only feel the pain in my right because the left side is putting tension on the right. I also have shooting pain down the side, front, and back of my right leg and glute. I am up at night in serious pain and sometimes while I’m doing certain steps in dance class it’ll hurt. I have ice packs, biofreeze gel, physical therapy, and a massage therapist helping. I do various glute exercises, along with eight different physical therapy exercises. I feel like there is no answer because even though the massage therapist helped and I was pain free for 9 days, i feel like it’s worsening. Please, somebody answer this question and tell me if there is any other thing I can possibly do to get rid of this pain. I’ve been dealing with this for months. I shouldn’t go through life like this
My left elbow has started to hurt. At rest it is an achey feeling.It also hurts when you palpate on the outer side of it.. When ever I try to straighten it sometimes it catches and I have to bring it back up and then slowly bring it down. When it catches it is a sharp pain. Also when ever I straighten my elbow it pops. Just recently it has started to have a intense sharp pain when I try to use strength in that arm.. I don’t know what is causing this. What do you think is wrong?
(Also I am still going to physical therapy for my shoulder in the same arm for having a SLAP repair, i don’t know if this has anything to do with this.) Just recently when I go to physical therapy the stretches for my shoulder are now hurting my elbow and I don’t know whats wrong.
Thanks.
Please give me any advice you have! I would greatly appreciate it.
I am having back problems. I tend to stress over allot of stuff. Like the day after michael jackson died is when i started feeling pain of a certain part of my back. I just went to the doctor and I’m completely healthy.I’m feeling pain all over my back.I’m feeling sharp pain on my spine(i did help a lady move some heavy furniture).and i’m feeling pain on my left side of my back. like the bottom part. I’m really scared. everyday that passes it get’s better.My bro said that happened to him b4 and he said just wait and it will go away.It got worse when i sat in the car but when i got out i felt fine. I never sit up straight. I slouch all the time when im walking and sitting down.Is my years of slouching finally catching up with me?I had physical therapy in december but i never finished it . should i start physical therapy again? IM ONLY 18 YEARS OLD!!!!oh yeah and since i finished school I havent been doing any kind of exercises. plus I’m very skinny. I’m 5 10 and i weigh like 140 pounds. do i just need to exercise?
I am having back problems. I tend to stress over allot of stuff. Like the day after michael jackson died is when i started feeling pain of a certain part of my back. I just went to the doctor and I’m completely healthy.I’m feeling pain all over my back.I’m feeling sharp pain on my spine(i did help a lady move some heavy furniture).and i’m feeling pain on my left side of my back. like the bottom part. I’m really scared. everyday that passes it get’s better.My bro said that happened to him b4 and he said just wait and it will go away.It got worse when i sat in the car but when i got out i felt fine. I never sit up straight. I slouch all the time when im walking and sitting down.Is my years of slouching finally catching up with me?I had physical therapy in december but i never finished it . should i start physical therapy again? IM ONLY 18 YEARS OLD!!!!oh yeah and since i finished school I havent been doing any kind of exercises. plus I’m very skinny. I’m 5 10 and i weigh like 140 pounds. do i just need to exercise?
I am really getting discouraged in getting rid of a pain I have had in my ankle/heal area. Sorry for this long background I am about to give but it may help someone give me some ideals. I would greatly appreciate any help you can give me.
I assume I got the pain from running, I ran about 3-4 miles a day back in March 2009. I also participated in a sprinting race in jeans (it was for a special school event). A day or two after that race I had horrid pain in the heel, especially in the morning. During the sprinting race I remember I was about to run into a runner in front of me so I had to slow rapidly and I kinda pushed into the ground with my foot on my tip toes (because I was in a dead sprint). I had no pain after the race, my legs only felt a bit weird. Maybe that had something to do with it?
Anyway the bad pain continued for months, and was always worse in the morning. I completely stopped running after the pain started. When my semester ended in May I went to a doctor who told me it was probably tendinitis because they took xrays and did not notice anything out of the ordinary. I went to physical therapy for a few weeks but it didn’t do too much. Eventually after resting and resting it the pain is very minimal. I notice it wen I first walk in the morning and it kinda fades in an out. I am able to run but I do still fell the pain, but it does not increase during running.
Only recently I have noticed my ankle/ heel with the pain cracks a lot. I can move my foot up and down and I feel/hear a popping like sound. Sometimes there is pain-sometimes not. But what really causes pain is pulling down on my foot. I put my hand on the top front part of my foot and lightly pull. there is quit a bit of pain with it. And just a few days ago I found that when the pain in really bad when I do that I can pop my ankle, (never have I done this before) and then when I pull on my foot the pain in the back of my heel/ ankle are has greatly decreased. It actually just happened to me when I was writing this, there is almost no pain now when I pull on my foot. Before cracking it there was a lot of pain. Is something getting pinched, do I have a joint coming out of place? Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Thank you for taking the time and reading this.
Ok im 16 and for the past few months iv had severe back pain.Its right in between my shoulder blades but i cant pin point where.It also goes into my neck and its incredibly stiff.The Pains a stabbing throbbing pain.Iv had xrays and mris that were negative.Iv been in physical therapy for about 4 weeks and it seems to be making it allot worse.I felt ok this morning and then when the PT and after i was in so much pain i wanted to cry.What else can i do…i don’t know what else can be wrong
OK so about 7 months ago I hurt my wrist during soccer. And maybe 2-3 weeks after that I got a cast. I had the cast for 4 weeks. Then after the cast it was still hurting. 3-4 later I went back and was diagnosed with tendinitis. I was given physical therapy for 6 weeks. That helped my flexibility a lot and the pain some too. But I still have a little bit of pain in my wrists around 7 weeks after my last doctor visit. Help. Do I need to see a doctor again. I have sprained this wrist before. And I am 12. And they say I might, might, might have a cyst. But that’s not likely. Please Help.