(crowd screaming)
- Oh no. Oh, oh, ow!
Ow! That's gotta hurt.
Backyard bruises, a bike ride gone bad
and easy ways to ruin your vacation.
Today we are back at it, breaking down
and reacting to all of the crazy medical mishaps
and water slide injuries
from backyard entertainment gone terribly wrong.
Fair warning though,
do not attempt any of the following fails.
Alright, let's dive right in.
(girls screaming)
Oh no. Go!
Someone's coming fast.
(gasping)
Oh man. Ouch.
Two different injuries that I'm really worried about here.
The person sliding down headfirst into that individual
can cause significant traumatic brain injury,
can cause compression fracture of the neck
or a hyperextension injury to the neck.
So you're flipping back,
you can actually cause a couple different types of injuries.
You can cause a vertebral body chip fracture.
You can cause an injury to the neck
where it stretches out so much
that it injures the spinal cord
and it's something called SCIWORA.
Then the individual that was trying to get out of the way
gets hit in the lower back, the buttocks area,
which then causes an extension injury.
It can cause significant fracture to the lumbar spine,
could actually cause like sciatica or a radiculopathy
which is basically where nerve impingement
in the lower back then causes pain
and uncomfortability to the lower legs.
Oh, it's like a slip and slide.
(Dr Wagner gasping)
(Dr. Wagner chuckling)
Oh man. (chuckling)
I mean that looked kind of fun.
A couple things about the ramp,
doesn't really look as well structured
using some pallets and probably a piece of plywood.
Just make sure it's smooth enough
that you're not gonna get any splinters.
And make sure that there's no nails in the plywood
that can actually cause significant injuries.
Now, it was kind of like a tuck and roll type of land,
which is good,
but you gotta be careful reaching out with your arms
trying to brace yourself.
You can cause fracture,
you can cause dislocation, obviously head injury,
but the biggest thing you worry about there
is a clavicular fracture,
shoulder fracture or shoulder dislocation.
- [Cameraman] You got this. Go for it.
- That's too much of a ramp at home.
- [Cameraman] Go, go.
- Oh! What were they thinking where he was going to land?
I look at this and I'm like,
oh my gosh, that looks so much fun,
but it's so dangerous flying through the air.
You are six, seven feet up in the air
landing on your right hip, right lower back.
Could dislocate the hip, can fracture the hip,
could just cause bad hematoma, contusion,
big bruising to that area.
Obviously the person got up, walked around and seemed okay
so we know that the leg is intact.
But adrenaline's also flying
so give it a couple hours;
there's definitely gonna be some pain.
This is why slides have water at the end of them.
It's to slow your landing, cushion your landing.
(crowd screaming)
Oh no. Oh, oh, ow!
Ow! That's gotta hurt.
It could be like a type of fiberglass, hard plastic,
but you can increase the risk of lacerating injuries.
We do get people that come to the emergency department
with different types of plastics
and objects that have been stuck in their body.
Most of the time people try to pull them out before coming,
but sometimes people would get very nervous
and will bring it the object in.
Pull it out, bring with,
you know, punctured into their tissue or leave it in.
I always say leave it in for now
unless it's very superficial
then you could take it out simply.
But if it's deep and causing a lot of pain
let a doctor take it out.
That way if there's a significant amount of injury
or trauma underneath
they can deal with it right then and there.
Whoa! So, obviously flying out of a water slide is horrible
and bad and you can cause significant injury
when you fall down.
But why did that person fall out so easily?
They designed these that this doesn't happen
that you would actually stay within the structure.
So I'm not sure if it was poorly made.
He's got his arms across his chest
but as he flies out, his arms actually go flailing.
And so when your arms are kind of open
and flailing like that,
when you land you increase the risk of fractures
or dislocations anywhere on your arms,
elbows, wrist, forearms
or dislocated a fracture of the shoulder
where the head of the humerus is.
So a lot of different injuries
and we see them really often in the emergency department.
Now what do we do?
If we suspect that there's a fracture, dislocation,
obviously, give some pain medication,
get an x-ray
and then if it's dislocated we'll put it back in joint.
Sometimes we can do this without sedation
but most of the time we do use sedation
just to make somebody not have to live
through that experience of us putting it back in place.
Oh! (chuckling)
Why is there a gate at the end?
I guess they're not supposed to be on this most likely.
Pelvic injuries, this is you pelvic bone, male or female.
Female causes fracture, dislocation of the pelvis itself.
A significant amount of bruising to the perineum,
which is the area between the genitals and the anus.
And that can cause significant bruising
and pain to all the muscles down there.
And then obviously head injury as well, smacking the side.
Now with a male anatomy,
you're concerned about testicular injuries
and penile injuries with a significant amount of bruising,
hematomas, same peroneal ear issues.
You can also cause a rupture of the testicle itself
as well as induce possible torsion.
- [Cameraman] Oh my gosh. Oh!
(camera man laughing) (crowd screaming)
- (chuckling) Man.
That is definitely a fail.
Okay, so the injuries that potentially happen
are fractures to the lumbar or thoracic spine
due to hyperextension to that area.
The lumbar spine is supposed to extend pretty well
that's why we have the lordosis,
but the kyphosis within the thoracic area
doesn't necessarily want you to bend in such a fashion.
So you gotta be pretty careful to that area.
Obviously, we're supposed to have some flexibility
but it's pretty extended.
The neck doing the same thing, super stretched out.
One, you could pull some muscles in your neck,
you can cause a strain to the spinal cord itself
and then to the vertebral bodies of the neck
causing injuries, all not good.
And then going into a body of water
which increases your risk of drowning
if there's any type of injury up into that area.
So you get paralyzed quickly from this injury
that you can't use your arm.
So, luckily there are people around
that could hopefully jump in the water to help.
- [Cameraman] Yeah, there you go.
- (chuckling) Ouch.
We see a lot of injuries where people get hit sideways,
usually it's actually a car accident,
but there was a lot of momentum going forward.
You can get injured by the small bicycle itself.
The biggest things we worry about with the bike injury
besides, like, superficial injuries,
is if the bike handles go into your epigastric area,
so the area where your stomach is.
It can cause bruising and injury to your duodenum
which is the first part of your small intestine
which can cause significant pain and issues.
So if you're having pain in that area
and you've been hit, gotta get checked out.
And then always make sure you're doing this
with people around you in case you do injure yourself,
get knocked unconscious, and you're in water,
this way you don't drown.
Small little pond, lake,
you just worry about how deep the water is.
And so if you hit a rock underneath
you can hit your head on it.
Oh, intensity.
- [Girl In Video] Ow!
- (gasping) Oh! I don't think she meant to do that.
Overstretched it, probably ruptured the hamstring.
What do I mean by that?
The hamstringing in the back.
So there's three major muscles to the back of the leg
that help pull it back, right?
Overextending any muscle,
stretching it further than it could go,
can cause it to rip and rupture.
Typically what you end up finding
is a significant amount of bruising to that area.
That's if the muscle is ruptured.
You can rupture the tendon off.
You'll have some bleeding but not as much
meaning bruising under the tissue.
Also ripped right through it
so it must've been just these plastic sheets
versus really thick water slides.
So, oh my gosh, so these were quite funny.
I hope nobody got seriously injured in all of these fails.
Hopefully this shows
that sometimes having fun can lead to injuries.
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