Servais@dormi.zone to Parenting@lemmy.world · 9 months agoX-ray of a baby's hand make it look like their bones are floating around in therefiles.catbox.moeimagemessage-square3fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
arrow-up10arrow-down1imageX-ray of a baby's hand make it look like their bones are floating around in therefiles.catbox.moeServais@dormi.zone to Parenting@lemmy.world · 9 months agomessage-square3fedilink
minus-squarejordanlund@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·9 months agoTendons don’t show up on xrays. Tore my achilles tendon, doc needed to do an MRI. Insurance company wouldn’t authorize an MRI without an xray first even though literally everyone else knew they don’t show up on xrays.
minus-squaretacosanonymous@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-29 months agoAt least they didn’t make you do 8-12 weeks of physical therapy first…
minus-squarejordanlund@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 months agoThat was the thing, I needed the MRI to START physical therapy so they knew exactly where the tear was and to what extent it was torn. So I limped around in agony for a few extra weeks while the doctors explained how they were, in fact, “doctors” and the insurance company was not.
Tendons don’t show up on xrays.
Tore my achilles tendon, doc needed to do an MRI. Insurance company wouldn’t authorize an MRI without an xray first even though literally everyone else knew they don’t show up on xrays.
At least they didn’t make you do 8-12 weeks of physical therapy first…
That was the thing, I needed the MRI to START physical therapy so they knew exactly where the tear was and to what extent it was torn.
So I limped around in agony for a few extra weeks while the doctors explained how they were, in fact, “doctors” and the insurance company was not.