This may be obvious for some of you folks… you know, along the lines of “check Google or Wikipedia.” But even for someone young and technologically savvy (not to mention handsome 
) as myself, I’m still kind of surprised about this:
Curious what a medical condition or test looks like? Check Youtube.
Yesterday I was trying to understand what a Trendelenberg gait was, and I wasn’t exactly understanding the wikipedia explanation. Turns out there are videos on Youtube to show exactly what it looks like.
I’ve done this in the past so I could see common tests like the Hawkin’s sign or Neer’s sign. It beats trying to read about it.
(Howard Zimmerle is a personal injury attorney in Rock Island and Moline Illinois, practicing in Illinois and Iowa).
2 Comments
April 20, 2009 at 1:49 pm
[...] I wrote about this in my other blog. Essentially though, you can probably get a good idea what I was talking about just by reading the title. [...]
June 23, 2009 at 9:16 am
[...] Quad Cities Injury Lawyers Blog has a good tip. Simply check out You Tube. I’ve used RXlist.com to better understand medications that client’s take. I’ve used Medicinenet.com for a written description of procedures and tests. So, why not use You Tube for a video of the same thing. It’s pretty impressive. I can’t vouch for the accuracy but after reading about a procedure or test you can tell if what you are seeing is, in fact, the proper procedure/test. [...]