| "BOOP" or "Bone Out Of Place" can strike fear in the heart
of any patient. Practitioners sometimes say that a patient has a bone that's out of
place. While this can happen, it's very rare. Unless you were told this by an
orthopedic surgeon or neurosurgeon, your bones are not out of place. Some
practitioners (Chiropractors, Some Physical Therapists, and Osteopathic Physicians) use
this terminology to describe joints in the spine that don't move in certain directions as
much as they should. Many patients picture a bone hanging in mid-air, this
is not the case. You shouldn't be any more concerned about this way of
describing a soft-tissue injury than you would be about a stiff ankle or knee. |
