minnesota20
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- Oct 12, 2015
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Hi, I took my medical exam about a month ago and passed, but 2 Fridays ago I was playing football and my shoulder popped out! It went back in right away but the team trainer made me wear this brace to stop it from popping out again and let me go back into the game. Now my shoulder is ok but the trainer is still making me wear the brace to make sure it doesn't pop out and I have done many exercises since then that require my shoulder like pull ups with no problem. Do I have to tell DoDMERB about the injury even though I never saw a doctor for it and I am ok now??? I haven't been accepted into any of the academies yet or received any ROTC offers, but I read that they can do background checks and talk to my friends and teachers and stuff and I am scared that they will talk to my school in the future and find out about it and kick me out of the military for not telling them about it. I'm also scared that they will be angry that I waited so long to tell them about the injury if I tell them. What should I do? I read online that popping/dislocating shoulders can disqualify me but technically a doctor never told me that I dislocated my shoulder just the school trainer did. Since no doctor has said anything about it and I am not gonna visit one about it will that make it ok to not tell them since I am self-diagnosing? I'm really worried please help!!!