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- From: doconnor@sedona.intel.com (Dennis O'Connor)
- Newsgroups: rec.equestrian
- Subject: Re: More on bowed tendons
- Date: 23 Dec 92 08:17:45
- Organization: Intel i960(tm) Architecture
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- In-reply-to: deblev@nimoy.ipac.caltech.edu's message of 22 Dec 1992 19:39:30 GMT
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- Just as another data point on "bowed" tendons : I have recently
- "bowed" (i.e. partially torn) a ligament in my left knee, and
- am wearing essentially a splint. Ii is a fabric sleeve that straps
- on above and below the knee with 5 big velcro straps, and has
- three sets of metal stiffeners : left, right and back. I'm
- going to be spending 5 weeks in this thing, 24 hours a day
- except in the shower. Of course, it's purpose is to immobolize
- the knee so the ligament can heal.
-
- Now ligaments aren't exactly tendons ( ligaments go bone-to-bone,
- tendons bone-to-muscle ), and I'm not a horse. But I thought
- I'd let people know what doctors do to people with "bows".
-
- ( And it did "bow" too : a puffy, sore-to-touch little one. )
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- Dennis O'Connor doconnor@sedona.intel.com
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