please help

[texanhockey 0]

i took a knee just above my knee yesterday in the first period but i finished off the game with pretty high pain. today my leg is kind of swollen and it hurts to walk on it and if i press down on the muscle it hurts very bad. like a stinging. do you think my femur may be cracked? bruised bone maybe? i only have partial coverage for medical and dont want to get an x-ray for nothing if it is.

[Chadd 916]

Sounds like you need to see a doctor but this is not a place to get medical advice.

[-brady2 0]

I doubt it, earlier this season i took a hard knee to the thigh at full speed, both of us being quicker players in our league, and i couldn't walk on it for two days and it seized up instantly and was nothing more than a charliehorse

[Tailboard Jockey 25]

Go to a county hospital emergency room. They can't turn you away for not being able to pay.

[usahockey22 0]

It would be pretty hard to crack your femur, and if you did it then it would probably be too painful to walk on it at all, much less allow you to log on to a message board in order to ask questions about it...the thigh has a lot of muscle that helps protect against impact, and that is probably what is hurting.

You should really go to a sports doctor...a certified athletic trainer could probably help you out (as far as deciding if you really need a doctor or not) without a large bill, but this still isn't really satisfactory. I would guess it's just a significant blow that was done to the muscle and will heal up if you can walk on it...but like was said, you need real medical attention if it's serious.

[Krev 86]

Leg contusion perhaps? Hematoma as well? Just throwing out some ideas.

[D aka speck 0]

Now I see Mack's problem, with another thread. Is this national get messed up and refuse to seek medical help day?

Anyway, see a Dr.!

There's 4 areas in the human body that NEVER seem to fully recover.

Your lower back, knees, neck or brain.

Don't let 9 year olds on the internet diagnose you for Pete's sake!

[texanhockey 0]

whats a leg contusion or hemotoma? thanks for the tips. im gunna go to get an x-ray i think and just work a few extra hours whenever i can to pay for it

[cxo 0]

Go to a county hospital emergency room. They can't turn you away for not being able to pay.

No hospital can refuse you treatment if you don't have insurance or money. They can make you pay for it through a lifetime of small payments however. There's no reason not to go to a hospital for anything if you feel it's needed.

[lee92 2]

While I agree a message board isn't the best way to get advice, all I can say is that I wouldn't bother going to the hospital. It sounds like a contusion, which should heal up in a few days. A contusion is simply bruising. You receive some form of blunt trauma to the tissue, the area hardens up as it swells and bleeds (bruises). If you did break your femur, I'm quite positive you'd know, as instead of slight pain and discomfort in walking, you wouldn't be able to walk all or bear any weight on that leg. Just apply ice and compression to the area while the knee is flexed as much as possible. This should control the swelling and bleeding. Try and stay off the leg as much as possible to speed up the healing.

[nyrslr21 0]

Your thigh can swell up to hold 30% of your blood volume, and a femur fracture can be fatal and usually results in the affected leg looking shorter due to all the gigantic thigh muscles tightening up. In sports, it's most often seen in football players taking a brutal tackle to the thigh.

[pantherfan 0]

i took a knee just above my knee yesterday in the first period but i finished off the game with pretty high pain. today my leg is kind of swollen and it hurts to walk on it and if i press down on the muscle it hurts very bad. like a stinging. do you think my femur may be cracked? bruised bone maybe? i only have partial coverage for medical and dont want to get an x-ray for nothing if it is.

Is it possible to get a cheap flight to Canada, see some sights, catch a hockey game and sponge off their health system?

[foppa21 0]

Go to a county hospital emergency room. They can't turn you away for not being able to pay.

And now does everyone see why our health insurance premiums are skyrocketing?

While I agree a message board isn't the best way to get advice, all I can say is that I wouldn't bother going to the hospital. It sounds like a contusion, which should heal up in a few days. A contusion is simply bruising. You receive some form of blunt trauma to the tissue, the area hardens up as it swells and bleeds (bruises). If you did break your femur, I'm quite positive you'd know, as instead of slight pain and discomfort in walking, you wouldn't be able to walk all or bear any weight on that leg. Just apply ice and compression to the area while the knee is flexed as much as possible. This should control the swelling and bleeding. Try and stay off the leg as much as possible to speed up the healing.

Please don't give medical advice concerning fractures when you aren't qualified to do so.

[Tailboard Jockey 25]

Go to a county hospital emergency room. They can't turn you away for not being able to pay.

And now does everyone see why our health insurance premiums are skyrocketing?

While I agree a message board isn't the best way to get advice, all I can say is that I wouldn't bother going to the hospital. It sounds like a contusion, which should heal up in a few days. A contusion is simply bruising. You receive some form of blunt trauma to the tissue, the area hardens up as it swells and bleeds (bruises). If you did break your femur, I'm quite positive you'd know, as instead of slight pain and discomfort in walking, you wouldn't be able to walk all or bear any weight on that leg. Just apply ice and compression to the area while the knee is flexed as much as possible. This should control the swelling and bleeding. Try and stay off the leg as much as possible to speed up the healing.

Please don't give medical advice concerning fractures when you aren't qualified to do so.

There is a difference between taking yourself to the hospital ER when you're injured, and calling 911 at 3am when you have the sniffles. I get to see that bullshit every shift.

[foppa21 0]

Tail- I wasn't talking about this case in particular, just the sentiment among the public of, "Oh, well let's go to the ER for anything and everything because they can't turn me away."

I worked in a small town ED for a while and couldn't believe some of the crap that people would come in with. I'm sure you've seen the same research I have, that only about 20% of the cases that come into the ED are actually emergent. It's getting to be ridiculous, and I don't see it getting better any time soon.

[-brady2 0]

Tail- I wasn't talking about this case in particular, just the sentiment among the public of, "Oh, well let's go to the ER for anything and everything because they can't turn me away."

I worked in a small town ED for a while and couldn't believe some of the crap that people would come in with. I'm sure you've seen the same research I have, that only about 20% of the cases that come into the ED are actually emergent. It's getting to be ridiculous, and I don't see it getting better any time soon.

My mother is the head nurse of the ER and she says the same thing, she hates it when people come in bitching about a common cold.

[Tailboard Jockey 25]

Tail- I wasn't talking about this case in particular, just the sentiment among the public of, "Oh, well let's go to the ER for anything and everything because they can't turn me away."

I worked in a small town ED for a while and couldn't believe some of the crap that people would come in with. I'm sure you've seen the same research I have, that only about 20% of the cases that come into the ED are actually emergent. It's getting to be ridiculous, and I don't see it getting better any time soon.

Sorry if I sounded like I was calling you out, I didn't mean to. I totally agree with you.

We get 911 calls on a regular basis where the caller is waiting for us on the curb with a suitcase packed. Usually between 2 and 5 am. They've been feeling sick for 4 days, but don't call 911 until the middle of the night.

[foppa21 0]

What I hated the most was when people when fabricate stuff to justify to themself or whoever that they needed to come in. Just my luck, I managed to answer the phone on one shift to have a mother announce to me that she was bringing her child in because he had "a fever of 125 F." Furthermore, she demanded of me that there be a bed waiting for the kid when they got there. Imagine her surprise when the triage nurse got a temp of 100.5 and they had to wait along with everyone else!

[Bravada 442 0]

I managed to answer the phone on one shift to have a mother announce to me that she was bringing her child in because he had "a fever of 125 F."

:lol: There is no way I wouldn't of laughed out loud on the phone to her there. As soon as she said that, I would of asked if he had already spontaneously combusted or not.