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What can I do to help a stress fracture without going to the doctor?

Published by admin on July 31, 2011

For about a month now I’ve had pain in my hip and I have previously stress fractured my opposite hip and the pain feels exactly the same. My parents won’t have medical insurance for a couple more weeks as paperwork is being taken care of and I have basketball practices. My coach says that I have to continue until I get confirmation from the doctor that it is truly injured. What can I do to help the hip until I have the opportunity to go to the doctor?

Your coach is an idiot, no good coach would force a player to play if he doesn’t feel up to snuff. This is the same BS with cheerleading not being a sport, those girls do high jumps, flips and spins with NO protective equipment, that is insane! The coaches typically have about 10 hours worth of training for emergency medical procedures, really 10 hours, a doctor has to go to school for nearly 8 years to treat a patient, nurses for about 2-4 years. I would say a splint but since you said this is a hip there is no real splint for that. Go to an emergency room if you have to, they will do an x-ray and confirm it or not. If he insists you play hurt, dude I would quit the team, it’s not worth your health especially at this young age to cripple yourself for life just to play a few more practices. Remember those cheerleaders? I’ve read report after report of them being becoming paraplegic, paralyzed, brain damage you name it from doing cheers and these are 16 year old girls, who had their life in front of them, and now they have to depend on others because a coach couldn’t understand that pride will force kids to admit they are not hurt when in fact they are.

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Comments (4)
  1. PraoWolf Said,

    Your coach is an idiot, no good coach would force a player to play if he doesn’t feel up to snuff. This is the same BS with cheerleading not being a sport, those girls do high jumps, flips and spins with NO protective equipment, that is insane! The coaches typically have about 10 hours worth of training for emergency medical procedures, really 10 hours, a doctor has to go to school for nearly 8 years to treat a patient, nurses for about 2-4 years. I would say a splint but since you said this is a hip there is no real splint for that. Go to an emergency room if you have to, they will do an x-ray and confirm it or not. If he insists you play hurt, dude I would quit the team, it’s not worth your health especially at this young age to cripple yourself for life just to play a few more practices. Remember those cheerleaders? I’ve read report after report of them being becoming paraplegic, paralyzed, brain damage you name it from doing cheers and these are 16 year old girls, who had their life in front of them, and now they have to depend on others because a coach couldn’t understand that pride will force kids to admit they are not hurt when in fact they are.
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  2. mssanu s Said,

    You have to be spoon fed
    Take mutton spoon and
    Take rest
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  3. Minor Millionaire Said,

    Tell our coach to F off, he’s an idiot…you could do much damage by practicing…might i add with 2 stress fractures in our hips from b-ball that maybe your try a different sport? Your body obviously is not up to the rigors of basketball.
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  4. Mono Indeed Said,

    Cant you go to a public hospital?
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