- I've reacted to YouTuber injuries before,
but apparently there's a few I missed.
So let's check those out and get started.
Whoop!
Got some football, football stuff.
Oh, is this Deestroying?
I heard something about this.
(crowd roaring)
- [Deestroying] It's crazy how life could change.
- Was that the injury? Was that when it happened?
Leading head down is not the correct way
to make a tackle from a safety perspective.
- Instantly as I hit him,
my whole left side of my body go numb.
- Oh no. - My arm is hurting.
- Oh no. - My neck is hurting.
And a team doctor evaluated me
and he said I'm all right for now,
let's put some Tiger Balm on it, finish off the game
and we'll do further tests afterwards.
But I don't know if I'm gonna be
tackling people like that again.
- Yeah, whenever you lead with the crown of your helmet,
you essentially open up your neck to all sorts of injuries.
That's why ideally you wanna be tackling
almost with the shoulder, and being able to visualize
the the person you're making the tackle of.
- [Doctor] So what happened to you?
- On a kick off, I went in and tackled somebody,
improper form, head was down,
and I mean I guess I...
- Do you have a video it by chance?
- See, that's a great question by that physician
because mechanism of injury is so important.
In the video you could see his neck snap backwards,
signifying that there's a hyperextension injury.
And hyperextension of the neck is very, very dangerous
because not only are there some connective tissue parts
like the ligaments in the area,
then you also have in the back two arteries
that run up on either side of the spine
called vertebral arteries.
And when you have hyperextension especially to one side,
you can actually sever those arteries.
It's obviously not what's going on here.
I'm just describing the dangers
of a hyperextension injury.
- What did you feel when you did it?
- Left arm went numb and my neck just instantly got stiff.
- So if I touch you here and here,
is that a hundred percent equal?
- Yeah.
- Here? - Yeah.
- This is a good evaluation from a neuro exam standpoint.
You're not just checking muscular function,
you're also checking sensation.
- Is there anything that's super tender?
- Towards lower.
- You've had a pretty significant injury to your neck.
You've fractured what's called the lamina
and you've broken at C5.
You've also disrupted,
there's a ligament that's not on this model
that runs up and down the front of your spine
called the anterior longitudinal ligament.
- That's a very severe injury.
He essentially broke his neck.
The neck is made up of seven vertebral bodies,
C one to C seven.
And the higher up on the spinal cord
that you have an injury, the more devastating it is.
C5, depending on where that injury is,
can impact your upper arm muscles.
It can impact your ability to speak, like your vocal cords,
and make it more difficult for you to breathe.
And that's if the injury is of the spinal cord.
Right now all we know is that the injury is of the bone
and specifically it's the posterior portion
of the spine, known as the lamina.
If it was any other part of the spine,
it's likely that he would've had more symptoms.
But when you have the lamina fracture,
that actually creates an opening for swelling to happen
and actually can mitigate the symptoms.
We actually perform what's known as a laminectomy
where we remove that part of the spine
to allow less damage to occur for the spinal cord
during other back injuries.
So the fact that that part broke
can allow a situation to happen
where he's not sure that this is a devastating neck injury.
That's why it's so dangerous.
- And so I mean, it was a major bony and ligamentous injury
and you have two small disc herniations at C5-6 and C6-7.
- Disc herniations happen as a result
of major pressure on the discs.
Those are like the little spongy areas
in between the vertebrae.
Depending on where it herniates,
it can create different symptoms.
So if it herniates inward,
it could actually put pressure on the spinal cord itself,
which could be devastating.
If it goes outward or to the side
it could put pressure on the nerves
that exit the spinal cord,
and have symptoms on only one side versus the other.
- The reality of this is this will probably heal
but it's probably gonna be three months
in that collar for it to heal.
- I don't need surgery right? - No.
- That's interesting
that they're saying he doesn't need surgery.
It must be a very limited fracture
because a lot of times in a situation
where the C5 vertebrae are fractured,
you do need fusion surgery to make sure that they're stable.
So I don't know the extent of the damage here,
but it clearly must be at a reasonable amount
that they feel he can just allow the area to heal
with the C collar on protecting the spine
and then do some rehab work as well.
Sending my best wishes to a speedy recovery
to Deestroying on this,
'cause I can imagine how hard it is
for being an athlete and having this happen to you.
- By the way, this car that we've been standing next to
this entire time, I bought this.
The reason I had to buy a brand new car
was because the next myth
is that you can break a car window with your fist.
- Oh no, don't do this.
Not only is someone going to get cut
and gonna bleed a lot,
someone's gonna break a bone in their hand.
That's not even a myth, like,
you're not supposed to do this.
There's even specific hammers that people have
inside their car to break out
in case they're trapped or they're sinking.
(upbeat music)
- Here we go.
(glass breaks) Whoa!
Oh, oh!
- [Friend] You okay?
- People, be careful what you do for views
'cause this could become so dangerous.
Like cutting yourself in areas
where you have major arteries is so scary
'cause you could die in a minute or so.
- [Friend] Max is getting stitches right now.
- That was a awful way to start the day.
That was a stupid thing to do, that was a stupid bit.
And creating entertaining content,
we sometimes get carried away.
That is a lesson learned
on getting carried away right there.
Don't do that.
You don't understand.
Don't play with glass, don't play with sharp objects.
I can't tell you how easy it is for things to go wrong.
- So it's freshman year.
I wanted to do like an activity.
What I tried to do was parkour,
and it was supposed to be
a quote unquote beginner parkour thing.
- I hate when things say beginner
'cause they're always still so hard.
Like I'll take a beginner yoga class
and not walk the next three days.
I just started using the tonal machine
and I did a beginner class and it was so high intensity
in terms of going from X-rays to X-rays.
I got so sore even though I'm pretty strong.
It's really funny.
- [Markiplier] It's time to drop from the second story
and do a sweet tuck and roll into this little grass patch.
- That sounds so scary for a beginner.
Like maybe you should just practice that on a mat first.
- [Markiplier] Then I realized they assumed
I knew how to do a tuck and roll,
Which I had never done in my life.
- You should probably practice it
before doing it off the second floor.
(Markiplier) come on, bud.
- [Markiplier] And so they're all giving me
encouraging words, they're like, you can do it.
And I'm like, I got this.
And so I drop, and I landed from the second story
straight onto my ass. (crashing)
- Oh my god, I feel for his coccyx already.
Donut pillow incoming.
- [Markiplier] And at the time I never connected the dots
to me falling on my ass
and possibly breaking something in my spine
to this weird thing where I'd go to the gym
and work my spine and I would be in horrible agony.
- I mean obviously it could be anything.
My suspicion is there's some kind of herniation
poking at a nerve that gets accentuated
with either flexion or extension
or it could be something completely different
like SI joint pain or hip joint pain.
Just usually those are not as electric in nature.
Also there could be like piriformis issues going on,
but that's more like wear and tear
as opposed to acute trauma.
- So I'll explain what happened.
So I'm supposed to be bent over, a guy jumps on my back,
who is your stunt double,
grabs my back and pulls me back really fast.
- It's those hyperextension injuries, see?
It's like the theme of the video.
- So I get pulled back
with a hundred something pounds of force
and then I have to pull forward.
- And pulling forward also stresses
all of these anterior scalene muscles
and the sternocleiomastoid muscle.
So you can tear something just doing that.
It also reminds me of a whiplash injury
from a car accident when you get rear-ended.
- The stunt coordinator did not teach me
how to properly do that. - Brace for it?
- So for some reason that pressure
all went straight to right in between my abs
and I felt something pop.
- Oh, he got a hernia.
- So I put my fingers down between my abs
and there is a lump.
(groaning) Little separation.
There's a lump right here.
- Yeah, if you increase intraabdominal pressure
with relaxed abdominal muscles, you can create a hernia.
And a hernia is essentially your intestines,
your abdominal contents poking out through the hole.
When the abdominal contents are poking out,
if you try pushing them in, you can't,
that's called non-reducible, and that could be dangerous
because that could lead to incarceration of the bowel
where it's actually getting choked out
and that's a surgical emergency.
Or if you can push it back in, that's called reducible.
That's the more common type.
You can go for an elective procedure
because of the risk, the increased risk
of having incarcerated bowel.
- And I didn't know what to do so I just,
push it back in. - No, no, no!
Don't say you pushed it in.
- So I pushed it back in.
(groans loudly)
- He reduced it.
- It was right above the belly button area right here.
And sometimes I do a certain thing
where I pull up this enough and my skin is tight enough,
you could kind of see a little bump right here.
- In those cases we ask a patient to bear down or cough
or lift up their head so that it flexes the area.
And sometimes increasing that intraabdominal pressure
can cause the hernia to pop out.
- Immediately when the doctor saw me they're like,
yep, that's a hernia.
And I was like, cool, so, how do I get that fixed?
And they're like, you don't.
I was like, what do you mean you don't?
And they're like, well, so the thing is,
if we want to fix this, we're gonna have to do surgery,
open your skin, push it back.
- You could do this laparoscopically.
- And they said that they only recommend doing that
if you have like a full blown hernia.
My hernia was like a weird thing
where it's like a few layers got weak
and a little protrusion happened
but it wasn't a full rip open with a full intestine.
- All right, so it's not a full hernia.
- I was told that I should never lift weights again.
- All right, there's some kind of like weird medical advice
happening here with like a half answer.
There is like a weakness in the abdominal wall
called diastasis recti.
This actually happens during pregnancy sometimes
when the abdominal muscles split
where you actually have a weakness in the wall
and you could see protrusion
on increased abdominal pressure.
And we say be careful with abdominal exercises,
but we don't say never lift weights at all.
So I feel like we're kind of hearing both sides of the story
that it is a hernia, but it's not a hernia.
It's probably diastasis recti, which is a condition
with weakness of the abdominal wall like this.
- I'm guarding Michael Jordan.
Bro gets me with a nice crossover.
Can't even lie, boom!
- Oh, elbow. - He goes up,
hits me with a mean vicious elbow to the chin.
- Oh that wasn't purposeful, though.
- Jesser fouled.
I'm at this point because I'm dripping blood
and there's a foul on me for getting elbowed in the face.
- Well yeah, it's depending on where you are on the court.
If you got in the way of the shooter's arm.
- I have to get subbed out.
I go straight to the bathroom.
Our team nurses rush into the bathroom to help.
- Does he have a chin laceration?
That's gonna require sutures probably.
- Close up shot of the chin.
- [Person] Look at that.
- Ooh, that's a solid opening that requires closure.
And the reason why the chin and the skull
have these really severe lacerations like that
is because whenever you have contact from a hard surface
like someone's elbow, the skin gets trapped
in between the hard elbow and your hard chin.
And that essentially acts as the force that cuts it.
So if this was like padded,
like let's say the buttock is,
less likely for a laceration to happen,
more likely a bruise to happen.
- So let's go through it.
Head to toe, total damage.
(bouncy music)
I've had no shortage of concussions
and I figured that my brain's pretty messed up.
So I went to this brain scan place.
- Oh no. - And they said
it looked pretty good.
- That brain scan place is doing
what's known as brain electrical activity mapping, BEAM.
That doesn't actually tell you anything
about the anatomy of the brain.
- I didn't see nearly the kinds of things
I expected to see in your brain.
- Cool. - I do see what might be
a sort of stress response from long years of drinking.
- A lot of this is correlational and not causative.
So I would be careful about drawing conclusions from an EEG.
If you're looking for damage,
looking at anatomy through a brain scan like a CT
or an MRI is gonna show you more information.
And even then, clinically judging someone
is way more valuable than anatomically,
unless you're in an acute setting.
(bell dings)
- My vision just gets worse and worse.
And I think it might be because all the lemon juice
and hot sauce I poured in my eyes.
(shouting)
- Yeah Steve-O.
Why didn't we talk about this on the podcast?
- I've got another pretty serious situation in my esophagus,
which is called Barrett's Esophagus.
- This is a precancerous condition.
We talked about this on the podcast.
What happens is basically the cell types,
due to long-term exposure of acid,
usually from leaking from the stomach,
change the type of cells inside the esophagus,
which is a cancerous change.
Obviously that can be lethal if you let it go unchecked.
- I have to get that monitored
with endoscopies every year or so.
- This really depends person to person
and how long we've established stability.
Sometimes you can space that out.
(bell dings)
- If I got a dollar for every time somebody asked me
if I could have kids with all of the kicks to my nuts,
I'm telling you, I'd have a bunch of dollars.
So I went to the fertility clinic to get a sperm count
before my vasectomy.
- It all depends on the damage.
- Look at that, dude.
I'm going off.
- [Woman] Whoa. - I'm going off.
I'm off to the operating room and I'll leave you with this.
The body is not a temple.
It's an amusement park.
Ride it till the wheels fall off.
- Oh no, Steve-O, don't say that.
You're encouraging bad behavior.
And I'm actually surprised
that he has no testicular damage
from all the kicks and stuff that he's taken,
'cause it's a sensitive area.
- What's up everybody? My name is Scott.
And I'm gonna tell you about how my 50 cal exploded.
- What? - And I almost bit the dust
about two weeks ago. - Whoa!
Where those staples are is so incredibly scary for me.
The jugular vein, the carotid, there's so much anatomy there
that is like instant fatality.
Oh my god. Oh my god.
(gunshot)
What?
(gunshot in slow motion)
Does this happen?
I don't know anything about this.
- This cap hit me right there.
- But he had the safety goggles on, thank God.
- But it struck me in the face.
It broke my orbital bone in three spots.
Here, here and here.
It also broke my nose.
- And that's so dangerous given the fact
that you have orbital swelling,
damage to the muscles that attach to the orbit.
Therefore you have difficulties with vision
and ability to move the eye.
- The other area it hit me right here in the throat.
It proceeded to lacerate my jugular vein.
- Oh my god. - And then punctured
a hole in my right lung.
- How did he survive this?
- I took my left thumb, wrapped it in my shirt,
and I shoved it as far into my neck as possible.
The doctors told me that if it wasn't for this thumb
that I would've died.
This thumb saved my life.
And my wife came up with a saying, she said,
She said, just put a thumb in it.
- Wow, and what happened? Why did the gun do that?
- [Producer] Complicated gun mechanic stuff.
- But he's probably taking care of them, so...
- [Producer] 50 cal is a really,
really complicated piece of equipment.
- Wow.
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