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Mayo Clinic disagrees with you and thinks your advice is dangerous. https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/osteoporosis/in-depth/osteoporosis/art-20044

Mayo Clinic disagrees with you and thinks your advice is dangerous. https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/osteoporosis/in-depth/osteoporosis/art-20044989 https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/osteoporosis/... You may be an exceptional case, but your should mention that.

s5300 6y ago
While I wish I had a good amount of credible sources on hand to post with this comment, I only really have suggestive anecdotal data. Mayo Clinic isn't as good as you might think when it comes to musculoskeletal issues. They're great with infectious diseases though. In this case, I'd take caution with their thoughts on osteoporosis. For example, Thoracic Outlet Syndrome. For the longest time Mayo Clinic denied it was a real condition. Then they agreed that 1/3 types was a real condition. Now they accept all types, or at least say they do, but try to chase away a large amount of people that have it for some reason. Finally, their surgery/treatment protocols are statistically quite bad now that they've started treating it. They've ruined a good amount of people's lives with bad surgical methods related to the syndrome... On the other hand, Boston Massachusetts General Hospital excels at musculoskeletal issues, especially thoracic outlet syndrome. This is coming from somebody diagnosed with TOS at Mayo Clinic, going to MGH for surgical options as the average review from people having treatment at Mayo was terrible. Mass Gen. found that my case was much worse than Mayo had reported in their notes, and that their treatment protocol would've made me quite worse. Mass Gen. attempts a large amount of re-do surgeries for this syndrome with surprisingly good outcome, and people who had bad surgery at Mayo Clinic are their largest percentage of re-do's. Just a thought I think should be out there. Like most institutions it would seem, Mayo is really good at some things... And really bad at others.
- mrexroad 6y ago
  Had TOS, but mild enough for physical therapy alone. Fingers tingle thinking about it. But wasn’t so lucky with ulna related issues :-/

s5300 6y ago

While I wish I had a good amount of credible sources on hand to post with this comment, I only really have suggestive anecdotal data. Mayo Clinic isn't as good as you might think when it comes to musculoskeletal issues. They're great with infectious diseases though. In this case, I'd take caution with their thoughts on osteoporosis. For example, Thoracic Outlet Syndrome. For the longest time Mayo Clinic denied it was a real condition. Then they agreed that 1/3 types was a real condition. Now they accept all types, or at least say they do, but try to chase away a large amount of people that have it for some reason. Finally, their surgery/treatment protocols are statistically quite bad now that they've started treating it. They've ruined a good amount of people's lives with bad surgical methods related to the syndrome... On the other hand, Boston Massachusetts General Hospital excels at musculoskeletal issues, especially thoracic outlet syndrome. This is coming from somebody diagnosed with TOS at Mayo Clinic, going to MGH for surgical options as the average review from people having treatment at Mayo was terrible. Mass Gen. found that my case was much worse than Mayo had reported in their notes, and that their treatment protocol would've made me quite worse. Mass Gen. attempts a large amount of re-do surgeries for this syndrome with surprisingly good outcome, and people who had bad surgery at Mayo Clinic are their largest percentage of re-do's. Just a thought I think should be out there. Like most institutions it would seem, Mayo is really good at some things... And really bad at others.

mrexroad 6y ago
Had TOS, but mild enough for physical therapy alone. Fingers tingle thinking about it. But wasn’t so lucky with ulna related issues :-/