Matt Wilkins
@mw
Sigh, sometimes it’s extremely difficult trying to help people that don’t want to be helped This is a 15 y.o. junior golfer, he’s good, but can’t compete well with his peers because he’s undersized and has no special abilities or talent. He’s just a -good- golfer Hurt his elbow last week. Never scheduled a session to get it evaluated by me I follow up today, and this is what he says… Like bro - my entire job is to do all the little things that a doctor doesn’t know about in order to rehabilitate injuries and help get you back to optimal performance as quick as possible. I’ve done it for the best players in the world in the NBA and NFL for almost as long as you’ve been alive. And your “boy who’s a doctor” just tells you to rest… ok. Good luck with that. He’s gonna call me in a month or two ready to train and then find out that just resting caused limitations and in other parts of his body (probably shoulder) all while losing time he could’ve been rehabbing
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Matt Wilkins
@mw
Years ago I would have tried to explain this all to him, but my experience tells me it falls on deaf ears Kids think they know it all, and the fact that this doctor just said rest which is extremely unhelpful doesn’t help my case since I’m not a doctor obviously Gotta vent here because watching someone do the wrong things when they could be doing the right things frustrates the hell out of me
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ted (not lasso)
@ted
honestly, sounds like he doesn't want it bad enough. ngmi. whenever i was injured as a high schooler and into college (broken fingers, rotator cuff issues, ruptured eardrum, sprained rib), i did everything i could to be back to training — taped fingers, leg-only practices, extra PT or isolated dryland workouts, etc.
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