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From: levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Calcium deposits (question)
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Date: Sun, 9-Nov-86 16:51:22 EST
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In article <4271@ut-ngp.UUCP>, osmigo1@ut-ngp.UUCP (Ron Morgan) writes:
>>Anyway, the osteopath now believes it's a calcium deposit, and is
>>discussing treatment first with anti-inflammatory medicine and, if that
>>doesn't work, with cortisone shots.
>>Lee Woodbury
>Let me say first off that I am VERY picky about who I let work on my joints.
>Injections, etc. are made into the sac enclosing the joint, and the slightest
>infection can result in *amputating* the limb. I've seen it happen.

I thought that kind of thing happened mainly back in the time before anti-
biotics (but that was also the time before cortisone shots, too, wasn't it?).
Is it still common?  It seems to me that getting a cut on one's finger could
also result in losing one's arm, but that the chances would be slim.  What
happens in these cases?  Why do antibiotics fail to work in these cases of
the "slightest infection"?

>the *slightest* indication of less-than-perfect competence on the part of my
>osteopath, I'm getting out of there FAST. I don't know exactly what your
>friend's osteopath told her, but I find it pretty scary.
>R.A. Morgan
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