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Originally Posted by allieyoung666
I remember when Paul had a medical last year they were hitting his bad leg with a medical hammer, the poor guy was in tears and then she started making him do flex's which he cannot do. isnt the scar enough, he has another medical next week and he is dreading it and to be honest I cannot blame him!!!
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I ain't having a go but come on now Allie, as a qualified nurse you should know that reflexes have to be tested and part of the reflex test is to GENTLY smack the lower knee with a reflex hammer. Flex's are necessary to see the amount of impairment between legs. If he can't do them fine, she shouldn't force him but she has to have some idea of whats going on.
Take Paul to the Quacks and get him to give you a letter stating the current reflex level of Pauls
- ankle
- knee
- abdomen
- forearm
- biceps
- triceps
Also get the Dr to do a Babinksi test so that when you go for the medical with Paul so the Dr in the medical there knows what has been done and the STATE of Pauls condition. He doesn't really need a Babinski test its just to show the amount of nerve damage or muscle degredation in the area. AND it doesn't hurt. Especially if they use a feather ;-) he won't need his abdmen or upper torso checked either in reality but it SHOULD stop the medical examiner doing it at the interview shouldn't it !
Personally unless the muscle degradation is that bad I can not understand why she needed a reflex test in the beginnig. The state of flexing should have been enough of an indication. You know that most relex tests are done to judge the onset of peripheral neuropathyas well as localised nerve damage. I assume she was checking for localised nerve damage!! As i siad get the quack to do one first !! Take the results with you. If he refuses get Paul to tell him how scared, embarrassed whatever good descriptive words he can come up with to get your doctors sympathy.
PS I am still scanning your stuff !!