I’m a chiropractor and this reminds me of a story. Had a 50 something patient who I’d never met, came in with severe calf pain with no real trauma. The week before he’d been travelling by train, so had likely been immobile for some time. The calf was hot and tender, seemed a little puffy throughout the ankle. I told him it was most likely a strain, or possibly a slight tear, but given the amount of pain, there was a small chance there was a DVT, and explained what that was. If it was a DVT, it could be serious, even fatal, so I wanted him to go to the nearby ER and get checked out. I’ve seen a couple, and diagnosis without a doppler is difficult, but this is kind of what those looked like. He said he would, I called him later. He’d gone home and called a neighbor who was an MD, he didn’t say what kind. The MD had prescribed him oxycontin, which helped a lot with his problem. He said the doctor had diagnosed his problem was “inflammation” and he felt that was a better explanation than what I had said.
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