Chapter 624: Progressive muscle ossification

The waiting room of the orthopaedics department on the fifth floor of the outpatient building of the Jihuan Hospital in Dahua City is lined with rows of waiting chairs filled with patients and their families waiting for treatment.
Some of them are in wheelchairs, some are on crutches, which is normal in orthopedic surgery, and there is a long uncle who is sleeping on the chair and snoring.
Zhou Haorui sat at a position in one of the rows, pressed the phone in his hand, and from time to time looked up to see the queued electronic screen on the wall, it was almost his turn. He touched the cervical spine, and there was a slight tingling, and the pain was also lifted.
"Not so bad ..."
Zhou Haorui is 20 years old this year. He is not a local, but he came to Dahua to study abroad, and majored in chemistry at Dahua University of Technology.
University of Science and Technology of China is an ordinary two books, just as he is an ordinary boy.
I once wanted to enter Tianji University, but I didn't have that kind of qualification.
Zhou Haorui touched his neck, next to the medical record bag was the X-ray results he had just taken, and the mobile phone showed a rare disease he found:
Progressive muscle ossification
, Referred to as FOR.
Today is March 30, about a week ago, after Zhou Haorui woke up, he felt a sore neck. At that time, he thought it was a pillow, and it would be fine after a rest. I didn't expect that after two days, not only did it not improve, but my neck became more stiff, and sometimes it would rattle when I moved it, which was very uncomfortable.
Zhou Haorui had to pay attention to it. He went to the pharmacy to buy a bottle of bruise ointment and applied it. However, after a few days, the symptoms were still worsening.
Sometimes he would suddenly feel dizzy for no reason. He couldn't sleep well. He had no energy in class and his life was completely affected.
Therefore, Zhou Haorui can only come to the hospital to see the orthopedics department, and he can see the attending physician Xiao Gang to see him, and let him take an X-ray film for examination.
Like many of his peers today, Zhou Haorui is passionate about supernatural powers, celestial bureaus, Gu Jun and other things that are covered with mysterious fog. But because of this, he is so upset now that he always has many ideas and always feels wrong ...
Will you have any strange illness? Even the initiating patient of an epidemic?
This thought made him more and more afraid. Before coming to the hospital, he had searched the Internet with his symptoms.
Although it is said that checking the disease on the Internet and starting cancer, he does have a strange and inexplicable feeling, which is caused by the cervical spine ...
The more you look at this rare disease called progressive musculoskeletal disease, the stronger the discomfort.
As if I saw my death on the calendar.
"Zhou Haorui." At this time, the electronic calling system called his name.
At the door of Dr. Xiao Gang's consultation room, a patient walked out slowly on crutches.
Zhou Haorui hurriedly got up and took the medical record kit and strode into the consultation room. The consultation room is less than ten square meters. Dr. Xiao is sitting behind his desk, a nurse is helping him, and an intern is operating the computer at another desk to take charge of the entry work.
"Dr. Xiao, I have taken X-rays." Zhou Haorui stepped up, handed over all the medical records to Dr. Xiao, and sat down on the chair.
Dr. Xiao Gang is a young man in his thirties. He wears a pair of rimless glasses. He is gentle and gentle. He took X-rays and reported the results. He quickly said: "Mild bone hyperplasia." He looked After seeing the patient, "You should pay more attention to protecting the cervical spine. You should be appropriate to watch your mobile phone, computer and book. You are still young and have little problems. Do n’t worry too much. I will give you some anti-inflammatory and pain medicine. Get physiotherapy. "
Is bone hyperplasia? Zhou Haorui breathed a sigh of relief, but just now, that strange sensation reappeared ...
The tingling sensation of the cervical spine seems to be telling him, it's not that simple, it's not bone hyperplasia ...
"Dr. Xiao, I have a question." Zhou Haorui asked with a frown. He really checked a lot of information. "Isn't bone hyperplasia a normal elderly person? I have bone hyperplasia at the age of 20. Is this the case?"
"Not many before, but now more and more." Dr. Xiao has a good attitude. Only through thorough doctor-patient communication can the patient be optimistic, explaining patiently: "Because modern people's life and work will cause a great burden on the joints and cervical spine , So the disease of bone hyperplasia is getting younger. This needs your personal long-term care and protection. "
Really, Zhou Haorui thinks that he does play a lot on his mobile phone, but he also plays a lot. The key is still that strange feeling.
This made him still unable to ask: "Dr. Xiao, look at me, is it possible that it is progressive musculoskeletal disease?"
"What?" Dr. Xiao was stunned. The nurse and the intern on the opposite side also seemed stunned. Dr. Xiao doubted: "Progressive musculoskeletal disease?"
Dr. Xiao really thought about it, and then remembered that there seemed to be such a rare disease, "Oh, progressive musculoskeletal disease ... how to say ..."
Zhou Haorui listened nervously, and saw Dr. Xiao instructing him on the X-ray film: "Look, bone hyperplasia will show a wide bottom and thin tip protrusion on the X-ray image. This position of your cervical spine is Very typical bone hyperplasia. "
"Well." Zhou Haorui looked at the bones on the X-ray film. Although he nodded, he really couldn't understand.
"In addition, you said, progressive musculoskeletal disease ..." Dr. Xiao put down the X-ray film, still had to use the computer on the table to search for information, and then asked: "Do you have a family history of this disease?"
"No." Zhou Haorui shook his head, "I know this is a genetic disease, but I saw that most cases are caused by new gene mutations ..."
"I think you know a lot about this disease." Dr. Xiao also maintained patience. "You know that the incidence of this rare disease is estimated to be one in two million. There are about 800 confirmed cases, and two cases have been diagnosed in China. This disease is a congenital disease, and the patient usually develops before the age of 10 ~ EbookFREE.me ~ Dr. Xiao looked at a few of the computer screens Pathological picture, side lane: "This disease does not start from a similar bone hyperplasia. If a sudden attack occurs, it is a tumor-like mass on imaging findings. Because it is a genetic mutation that causes fibrous tissues such as muscles, tendons, and ligaments of the body to ossify spontaneously or in the event of trauma, forming secondary bones. These ectopic secondary bones are permanently replaced with the original normal main bone Fusing together, resulting in restricted joint movement, and finally the whole body is boned, and it becomes unable to move like a stone. I do n’t see any tumor-like masses or fibrosis around your cervical spine. I do n’t need to worry too much about this possibility. "
"Then ... Dr. Xiao, will it definitely not?" Zhou Haorui asked, knowing that the doctor would not be full, but wanted a guarantee.
"Your symptoms are really different now." Dr. Xiao solemnly said, "It is also unlikely from the probability. But in the future, I will not say this."
Zhou Haorui couldn't rest assured that he scratched his head and touched his neck again, with pain, stiffness, and that strange feeling ...
As Dr. Xiao said, there seems to be bones growing ...
Fibrosis, ossification, petrification ...