Word: normalization
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...About the Timing "When will I get back to normal" is a hard question to answer, even for a good doctor
...when will I be back to normal-out of pain?" This is a far more difficult question...
...Like most orthopedic surgeons, I primarily treat pain. Pain is never "normal" and it's almost never gone on schedule; medical judgments about how long it will take to go away are hard to make-and often wrong...
...hurts. She walks without pain, goes to school, even gets through gym class pretty comfortably-but she can't dance. A big dance recital is coming up-dancers from the famous ballet company in the city will be there to watch her-and she wants to be "back to normal" by then. She and her Mom want to know when this pain will go away...
...When I touch her long, skinny foot, it hurts at one particular spot. This is where it hurts when she tries to dance. The X-ray at first glance is normal, but if you look very carefully there's a little disruption of the lace-like pattern of the bone's spongy internal architecture at exactly the spot where it hurts. (This X-ray, by the way, was read as "normal" by the radiologist. Only an MRI or bone scan will reliably show the fracture to someone who has not had the opportunity to examine the patient and focus...