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Coley said the normal procedure at UHS is for students to be seen first by a primary care physician. Depending upon the severity of a patient's symptoms, the primary care physician will either refer the patient to a specialist or to a physical therapist...
...reexamined. Currently, even if one has been diagnosed with RSI, therapists are booked a month in advance, resulting in a long wait for the initial appointment. The staff is simply overworked, and more therapists must be hired. In addition, UHS needs to hire, at least part-time, a specialist in RSI. When I saw the hand specialist, he gave a cursory examination of my hands. Then he suggested cortisone shots (a method he pointed out had been quite successful with the post-partem mothers he had seen recently--despite the obvious fact that I was not a post-partem mother...
When she finally got to physical therapy, the specialist "seemed generally helpful" and suggested she lighten her backpack and do certain stretches, among other things...
Rosenbaum says her new doctor also informed her that some of the stretches the specialist at UHS had recommended were actually exacerbating her condition...
...says she does not fault the UHS specialist for not having a detailed understanding of RSI, because the syndrome is relatively...