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It's long been believed that an ACL rupture requires surgery as the ligament does not have sufficient blood flow to repair on its own. But then a recent study showed that in a significant percentage of people who suffer ACL ruptures and elect not to have surgery the ligament eventually repairs itself on its own.
I know that people can function and even be high-level athletes without an ACL, but I haven't heard of non-surgical repairs outside of specific inteventions (holding the leg at a fixed angle for a few weeks following an injury). I'd be keen to read about this if you have links?
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I know that people can function and even be high-level athletes without an ACL, but I haven't heard of non-surgical repairs outside of specific inteventions (holding the leg at a fixed angle for a few weeks following an injury). I'd be keen to read about this if you have links?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41387950
Ah I think I misread the gp comment - I thought there was research about ACLs repairing 'on their own', this looks like the case I've seen where putting the joint at a fixed angle leads to repair.
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Sad to say, the fecal-oral cycle of infection remains common in the USA, with the most common areas of spread being restaurants although hospitals were sadly guilty of this until recently. And for any gastrointestinal illness in the USA, the single most common cause is Helicobacter pylori. Back in the 1980s and 1990s researchers mostly associated Helicobacter pylori with ulcers, but since then the research has expand…
The one thing that shocked me after moving to the States was how no one washed their hands before meals. It's just not a thing.
That sounds pretty gross really. :(
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On the other hand, we're discovering that certain antibiotics can be very useful in treating specific GI conditions. Rifaximin, and antibiotic designed to stay in your gut, has been approved for treating specific types of IBS. When it works it can induce remission for months or longer.
Story time: I went through a dark and stressful period of my life when I was in my teens. After I mostly got over the issues, I went on a vacation with a friend and his family. At one point in the vacation, I ended getting some kind of food poisoning from shellfish that apparently no one else who at the same meal got. Anyway, I eventually recovered in a few days, but it seemed as though I never fully recovered. I had…
If you have medical records (ie at the doctors office, etc), then maybe you can ask them about it the next time you visit the doctor?
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Short haired dogs don’t have this problem. My greyhound is pretty much self-cleaning.
But then you get those short little hairs everywhere, not to mention having to dress your dog every time it goes below freezing :)
> having to dress your dog every time it goes below freezing :)
HAVE to? Dressing them up is one of my favorite parts.
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When people walk into a restaurant - fast food, slow food - especially before COVID, do you see people go to the bathroom to wash their hands before the meal? That never happens.
I usually carry a bottle of hand sanitizer to clean my hands before meals. I started doing this even before the pandemic, to avoid getting sick with the common cold. A good number of people do this in my city: when I go on public transit, I see a fair number of commuters with a hand sanitizer bottle clipped to their bag with a carabiner. Many people also have a bottle in their pockets or purse.
After COVID, yes, that is true. People take it more seriously now (although things seem to be snapping back).
I would go out to lunch with mu coworkers and I would give out everyone wet wipes because I was the only one who had them, specifically for this.
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I grow some of my own food (salads, zucchini, Hokkaido, potatoes, etc) in my garden but it's nowhere near self-sufficiency. All of my seeds as well as my garden are completely GMO free. I've been growing the last few seasons by solely relying on my own seeds though.
> as well as my garden are completely GMO free. Goes without saying. It’s rare to find GMO vegetables even commercially (only zucchini and potatoes even could be), let alone in a garden. But that’s not what we’re talking about. We’re talking about ensuring the GMO vendors haven’t ever touched the seed. How are you ensuring provenance as to avoid the trust issues?
There are many places you can get food and seeds that are verified to be non-GMO.
If you're trying to do a "reflections on trusting trust" reference, well, this is the real world. You might not ever be 100% sure that something is what it says it is (you might be a brain in a jar!), but it's usually better to get it from the guy you trust than the guy you don't.
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Most GMOs are safe, with the possible exception of those that produce their own insecticide, and overspraying of herbicides on crops GMO'd to be more herbicide-resistant.
I don't trust any of the GMO vendors.
You know what, that's totally fair. I also do not trust them. I suppose I tend to assume the capacity for deception on this scale is rather limited.
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What is it you're suffering from? Do you have references / communities / guides? I have Ulcerative Colitis which I got around 2018 and it seems well managed. Since my first COVID infection, I ended up with repetitive thoughts, short term memory problems, difficulty focusing, light sensitivity, fatigue ... It got better but it seems that seasonal allergies re-trigger some kind of cascading inflammation and I've been u…
Mine is ME/CFS from hEDS made worse by the covid vaccine. Patient led 'research' I'm talking about is done off the books in private chat groups / discords / telegram - so nothing is published. That's a double edged sword - but given the slow pace of normal medical research we just couldn't wait. Given that it's grey / black market these groups, the ones that survive, are extremely private. Those listed conditions are…
Curious to know the origin of your likelihood calculation (HN & Physics).
Also very funny you inspect my account to figure out I'm a physicist.
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Most people can take 14 days of an oral antibiotic without significant long-term adverse consequences. As of 15 years ago, according to my doctor, while on the antibiotic, sacchromyces boulardi is the best probiotic to take to try to minimize the risk of adverse consequences.
I have never been given a probiotic while getting an antibiotic. Seems like a good idea. Is that a common thing? Does the evidence support this?
When this happened (again about 15 years ago) I was taking a very long course of antibiotics.