No Pain, No Gain

So today was a sad day for my patients. Everyone seemed to be in non-relenting pain with no explicable or fixable cause. I always feel sympathy for pt's with knee or hip surgeries, but know that eventually they will get to a point where they feel relief and feel their results are totally worth the pain. Today, was not one of those days. From a pt crying to me in italian/ spanish that the brace we had worked so hard to get was making the pain worse. From the poor person who went from I to max A in a matter of a day due to a surgical complication. To doctors yelling at Pts because they are frustrated the ortho doctor is MIA, like PTs can magically locate the pain...maybe we've changed our profession and have X-ray vision now, on top of a DPT....but seriously...today was sad and depressing, and hopefully tomorrow, all the results come back and our pts are feeling less pain and more functional....HOPEFULLY!!!

Find a happy place :)