I have Osgood Schlatter Disorder in my right knee, confirmed by two different civilian docs? I am in the military, and seen two different NAVY docs and neither one took x-rays or even bothered to look at my knee, but yet they both said you are fine!!! I asked how they can come to that conclusion without doing some sort of test? I think I offended them by saying that, and since I am enlisted and they are officers, they both just said that I am fine. Where do they get there Medical Degrees? Seem like quacks to me?
2007-10-05 15:27:37 · 7 answers · asked by scm3582 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
It's a fairly common condition among males in the U.S. They don't need to do any "test" to show it. Basically, the top of your shin bone decalcified in adolescence. It reformed into a little "floating" bone between the top of your shin bone and your knee cap in adulthood. That left a little notch at the top of your shin bone which can easily be felt by any competent medical examiner.
It is disqualifying for enlistment in the armed forces {Army Regulation 40-501: Standards of Medical Fitness, para. 2-10(b) (8)}. Since you entered with a condition which should have disqualified you, they will prepare a medical board report to confirm that and recommend your discharge under the authority contained in BUMED Instruction 1910.3 series.
If you continue on active duty, and are forced to hit a prone position with a weapon or during any shipboard drills on a continuous basis, there is a high degree of probability you will become arthritic in the knee and will have to be released with a payment for your disability. That's why men with Osgood-Schlatter's aren't supposed to get in in the first place. It saves the taxpayers a lot of money down the road.
So, I suggest you get the x-rays from those civilian doctors. Then request a mast under Article 138 of the UCMJ with your C.O. But, if those civilian x-rays don't show that notch at the top of the shin bone and that floating bone south of the knee cap, then maybe they got it wrong. If it does show radiological evidence of the presence of Osgood-Schlatter's and your knew it and hid that fact to enter, they might go after you for fraudulent enlistment.
The ball is in your court.
2007-10-05 15:42:04 · answer #1 · answered by desertviking_00 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
They usually prescribe some Vitamin M (Motrin) and call it PFPS (Patella Femoral Pain Syndrome). A corpsman once told me that all PFPS means is that your knee hurts and you need to get a straw and suck it up.
Anyway, do you have the xrays from the civilian docs? If so, take them do the Navy docs, and ask them to have a look for themselves.
2007-10-05 22:48:48 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Welcome to the navy. Medical is free in the military and you get what you pay for. Not to offend any of you military docs out there but many are there because they couldn't make it as civilian docs. I should make it clear that this is of course not true of everyone of them.
2007-10-06 00:49:32 · answer #3 · answered by h4h1 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They received their degrees from the Escuela Medicina del Mundo Hispanico!
Does that answer your questions?
2007-10-05 22:31:21 · answer #4 · answered by Don Vittorio Corlleone 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Let me guess.....they sent you home with Motrin 800's right? I think they spend their medical training learning how to spell M-O-T-R-I-N.
2007-10-05 22:34:37 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Hon, that is military life for you.
2007-10-05 22:47:26 · answer #6 · answered by Sgt Little Keefe 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
welcome to the Navy
2007-10-05 22:30:40 · answer #7 · answered by Michael G 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋