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Doctor Reacts To Devastating NFL Injuries

we're about to watch some NFL gruesome injuries and I have the man the legend Brandon Marshall in the house to help me dissect some of these talk about it from a doctor's and athletes perspective let's get started PE here's Wilson gets hit this is a hand this year overthrown Aaron Donald gets a hit on Russell Wilson and oh the middle finger of Wilson are we making it worse as players when we start grabbing these things and trying to make it work again I mean it's not helping you want to right away put a turn not a turn again splint on it in order to decrease the motion especially with an injury like that mallet finger what happens is you actually have a fracture from the tendon that attaches to the top of the finger that allows you to move your finger this way so imagine you lose that tendon the finger just hangs you remember this one a couple years ago yeah for sure take off to the left get pulled down by Logan Ryan oo oh the leg is facing the other way this mechanism here of having the other player's knee fall directly onto his ankle and see the change you know this is a compound fracture cuz it's poking out of his skin have you ever seen on the field an injury this like gruesome absolutely and also this play right this play is a ban play this is a horse caller right so like grabbing a guy by the back of his neck and pulling him down but it's how they do it with their body weight it's a very dangerous play we can play hard and play rough but we should also try to protect each other on the field he's lucky actually wasn't his knee as well probably I wouldn't be surprised if he broke both tibia and fibula but there you could put Hardware recovering a knee is tricky cuz now you're talking about soft tissue damage as opposed to bones bones heal well soft tissue ligaments tendons those can be tricky in some cases especially for an athlete like that so this is bad it's another one here comes the Blitz and there goes Alex Smith down at the 40 Y Line Kareem Jackson he doesn't know that Alex is injured Al Smith is down here's the mechanism leg got caught oh jeez oh my goodness okay so you could see again loose bones yeah what's unique about this fracture upon after reviewing it is it's a spiral fracture which means that there was like a torsional force on the bone so it doesn't just break on one line it kind of breaks on a diagonal line going up the bone and that obviously is a different level of fracture because now it's creating a sharp point that comes out through the skin and becomes really problematic and for Alex Smith this was even worse because then he developed the bacterial infection ended up with sepsis sepsis is basically when the infection actually enters from the wound into your blood goes throughout the body and then that bacteria causes all your blood vessels to dilate and when your blood vessels dilate your blood pressure drops so you don't get enough circulation to your brain your vital organs we actually invited Alex Smith to the podcast Alex Smith come I love you here you go again ah similar to oh yeah the leg got caught but it's similar to that same horse crawler from Dak Prescott the jump you know now we have different rules for quarterbacks do you think the rules have gone and the Pendulum has swung a little bit too far in protecting quarterbacks or do think it's fair too far I like listen we got to make the game safer I'm all for that protecting guys but what I don't want to see is what we saw a few times this year defensive player running in the pocket and literally just chest bump the quarterback the quarterback stands up shocked and get out the pocket throws it away or throws a completion or throws a touchdown it's tough It's a tough thing it's a business but right now I don't think it's all the way fair for the defender oh this is college mhm this was nasty oh my God this is brutal this is this is the knee injury this is right the AC MCL here see this is where I'm talking about where on this exam there's tears there's massive Global swelling you can't make a diagnosis that's right you just know something is torn that's right you need to get images on it you need to get images you need to go back on the replay see what happened and then you could make a an educated guess oh this is terrible this is really problematic o when you see some of these injuries you know a lot of times you just look at the the player on the ground but there's so many other people that's like counting on this person to get up and be healthy and you're thinking about that as an athlete some of the first things you think about is like oh can I play again steady on the back for the Patriots here's Murray he down yeah he got caught you know what when you see a non- contct injury you automatically think the worst yeah it's like when a guy goes down and no one touches them you're like oh this is bad right there from the the footage I could tell you it looks more ACL cuz he's trying to move forward like his body's trying to move forward but his cleat is planted so his upper leg continues to move but the lower leg is stuck so that tells me the thing that keeps your knee in place from extra Forward Motion is the ACL is gone to a rolling [Applause] left and this wasn't on purpose by the bang by any means no not at all it's momentum when you see this as a doctor you know seeing them in this state fingers everything's stuck like that the concern for me goes into a situation is is there bleeding inside the brain is this a seizure from such a bad injury cuz all those things are very possible with a hit like that that was vicious and the fact that that happens so often and then under reported underrecognized I understand from players like I've had players ask me to clear them for things and I understand that they're coming from a good place but I still don't know how to have that conversation in a good way because it feels like I'm keeping them from something that they want success in but I'm also looking after their health so I don't I don't even know what the right things to say is to pacify that situation how do you feel as an athlete in that have you ever had a concussion uh one for me I mean just going off a tu it's hard cuz I masked the one that I had because it was my contract year it's It's tricky because there's a lot of emotion there's a lot of like business business behind it but not even business it's like it's every thing like when I said with Willis mahe when you're laying on the ground you know I probably would have been thinking about you know my mother my sister who had just had a kid at 16 so a lot of times not even just about you but with Tua the older me wiser me mature me again is like sit your ass down yeah right cuz like there's this discussion after he suffered his second one and we're looking at you know this third one that he he actually reported it's like will he play for the in the playoff game is he going to come back and it's like that doesn't matter right now to have two three four in one year now you're looking at your career definitely being over life I mean worry you know there's personality changes that happen with the concussion especially in the short term they get aggressive I seen the sweetest high school kids that I met them before the game sweet as kids they get a concussion yelling screaming cursing out their trainers who they have a great relationship with so you see that on the sideline from one of your teammates are you telling them sit down what do I like to say what do you like to say sit your ass down you you said that before oh absolutely especially with concussions even you know in the height of this discussion you know even in boxing right someone gets knocked out and me to everybody just like you feel it everybody feels that you know so no I'm telling my brother you know to go sit down you know it's not worth it for sure here's wide open to Midfield and lowers should this one's hard uh and is emotional because you know he died on the field right that's something most people don't say that's accurate actually that's right so obviously initially you see contact chest contact but then you also see his head hit the ground so it's hard for me to know right at the outset what's happening but you know what we do differently as Sports Med doctors mechanism of injury like how an injury happened sometimes gives us more info than actually doing an exam knowing that he became pulseless knowing that his heart stopped abruptly and then seeing that hit to the chest is the reason why a lot of doctors jump to speculate that this is that uh Kio Cordis condition where in a very specific millisecond of a moment during the electrical rhythm of your heart you take a physical trauma to the chest wall and your heart goes into an abnormal Rhythm which basically leaves you pulseless so everybody should be certified to do CPR yes right you know the assistant athletic trainer to be the one that jump in there and get the job done like that says a lot about him and that was big because that saved his life what happens in CPR is you're squeezing the heart through the outside of the chest by putting the pressure into 2 in deep and then you're actually moving the blood in the body as if the heart was beating and the blood does not get reoxygenated but there is some oxygen still left in the blood so you're circulating that blood extending the time to get the defibrillator the medical assistance all of these tools that can be used to bring this person back so CPR absolutely saved his life here will he play again speculation even the condition that I was talking about the doctor's thought he was having that's one level of speculation and maybe we can get there cuz we can watch the mechanism but not being his doctor not knowing the full medical history that's not even right for me to say the catch by the rookie this a out of Tennessee and Ryan the leader of this Pittsburgh defense is Notting up there's a spinal injury here jeez oh my goodness it's scary watching a hit with the crown of the head obviously for the player receiving the hit but also the player delivering the hit cuz you're putting major compressive Force onto your spine remember there are bones there but then there's also soft discs that cushion the padic the gravity and the Bones from rubbing on each other and those can pop those can go and start putting pressure on your actual spinal cord Miller and Allen and to leave then comes over oh oh he did that on purpose Man Savage I forgot that play you know yeah there's a lot of dirty plays there's a lot of things that happen in that pile you know I've heard of pinching and hair pulling grabbing nuts really all that type of stuff all the time but it's funny you're telling me about this Brotherhood you guys respect each other everybody respect the Brotherhood and then you guys are stabbing not everybody respect the Brotherhood you got to kick that person out the Brotherhood remember this oh yeah my delto it's not my deltoid it's freaking Turf oh my goodness I knew it was over no way medial angle yeah so the delto which is hard to yeah that's really hard so there's been a lot of players complaining about this Turf right even this year you had guys go down with non- contct injuries it's it's really ruining careers that was pretty much the last of me like I I felt like I could have played a couple more years you know but that play was over because it did you have a no I just snapped my Del toy that's it just cut it out that's right it's that's usually one of the that's right and he usually breaks off bone that's right yeah so we've been talking about it all day right you know the athlete way the athletes approach there's a lot of people right now that are Googling how to get in shape how to eat better I just find that you know where the health is people on the planet so being able to take the way we train the way we sleep the way we approach our mental Fitness and put it into one Platform One app and give that to people it's it keeps me online when it comes to my life's work and my purpose a lot of people just need to lean into the fundamentals so we can decrease these and outside of the big injuries it's also just want to feel better want to perform better yeah just simple that's it yeah it's not about just preventing disease and injuries it's about improving wellness and enjoyment let's let's just feel better let's right so where can people learn more about it you go to the App Store search House of athlete plus see a beautiful little plus sign right there I need some Plus in my life let's do it click here to check out the full interview we just did with Brandon Marshall he spills all the beans of terol Owens playing in the NFL the drugs that they actually gave the players to numb them up really interesting podcast full interview click here and as always stay happy and healthy

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