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From: morris@Shasta.ARPA (Kathy Morris)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: ``Congenital dysplasia of the limbs'' -- huh?
Message-ID: <105@Shasta.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 20-Feb-86 15:15:37 EST
Article-I.D.: Shasta.105
Posted: Thu Feb 20 15:15:37 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 24-Feb-86 04:39:46 EST
Reply-To: morris@Shasta.ARPA (Kathy Morris)
Organization: Stanford University
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Does anyone out there know what this is?  The situation is: yesterday I
slipped, twisting my left knee.  The doctor at the student health
centre here sent me to a local sports medicine clinic to see an
orthopaedic specialist.  One of the notes on the referral said
``congenital dysplasia of the limbs''.  Now, I knew I had amniotic
bands (a congenital condition which resulted in deformities of both
hands, one leg and the other foot).  But this was my ``good'' knee,
there is a band on that leg, but it's further down, so my knee isn't
affected.  When I asked the doctor about it, he said it just meant
``loose joints'' and manipulated my fingers and wrist to demonstrate.

The question is:  how common is this, and what, if anything, can I do
about it?  A chiropractor had once commented on how supple my back was,
but I hadn't realised it was outside ``normal'' limits.

[It looks like I haven't done any serious damage to my knee, at least.
I was afraid of ligament damage (I've dislocated the patella twice before),
but the specialist seems to think it's not too serious.  I've been
commuting by bicycle 15 minutes each way, which had helped to build up
my quadraceps.  So, now it's a matter of ice and elevation, and rest.
Sigh.]

	Kathy Morris
	(morris@diablo.stanford.edu.
	{decwrl|hplabs|ucbvax|...}!Glacier!morris)