Doc, I was in a hit and run accident in 1991. the car flipped 4 or 5 times, i was in the back seat and when the car landed it on the back end end everytime it hit. My injuries included a rupture diaphram, 2 collapse lungs, stomach and spleen ended up in my upper chest, and it crush my thorax. I had lacerations of the diaphram spleen and liver. I had traumtic brain injury. I walked hunched over for about 10 months to a year, and had severe whiplash. I was serving in the marines at the time and have had nothing but problems since. I have arthritis in my back, shoulder and both hips the VA diagnoised my bi_lateral hip condition in my early 30's just barley 10 years after the accident, they say i didnt complain while i was in it wasnt caused by the accident. I had so many other problems with pain i couldnt feel it as much. I did try to stay in so about 14 monts after the accident i went on a marine corp hike, or as we would say a hump. I didnt make it 2 miles i felt it in my hips then i had no push off. From my research online common sense would tell me thats the only reason i have this diease. My va doctor says its post traumatic arthritis. I was just wondering after a serious car accident like that might it take time before it takes affect. Im sorry you dont walk haunched over that long, your stomach doesnt go into your upper chest , and have a blunt head injury , and it stops there does it. If the bi-lateral hip condition wasnt caused by the car wreck where could it have came from. W ould you as ad octor recomend me to fight this decision
Ty Doc,
Scott Bredeson