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Doctor Reacts To Olympics Injuries

the Olympic summer games are upon us and apparently there's been some injuries that have happened Sam put them together for me I'm scared but we're going to learn something together let's get started uhoh uhoh these spins these Dismounts the this is where the danger comes in quite get to the vertical the last move but on the high bar she's working quickly efficiently I feel the disbound is oh de concussion broken nose zygomatic Arch fracture I hated the way she was rolled over if she had a cervical injury there that would be a really bad way you got to support the neck when you do that no she's up no that looked bad for a moment didn't move no no no no no no I hope she didn't compete after that that would be so wrong from a concussion standpoint once you get the first one just cuz you feel fine doesn't mean you should go back in cuz now your brain's even more sensitive to worse injury wrestling a lot of cauliflower ear a lot of dislocations elbow elbow was that elbow falling on a weird angle like that on your elbow could be very devastating in situations like this it's usually more of a simple dislocation where you're tearing ligaments complicated or complex one would be a broken bones what can be dangerous is if you do have significant damage to that area especially with a broken bone you can tear arteries which can cause massive bleeding from the brachial artery but also massive nerve damage that can then predispose to issues with the hand and as we know the hand is very important as occupational therapist can attest so tipping my cap to occupational therapist and all the great work they do torn ligaments are painful injuries to deal with at the times but for Olympic gymnast K strug it had to be ignore when her us teammate left the Vault having just missed the 9.4 needed to win the gold it was down to strug's remaining two attempts to secure the top metal wait she did it on a torn ligament when she limped back after falling during her first attempt something had clearly gone very wrong strug knew that she had to land her second attempt as she made her way to the start that's so dangerous oh no oh no she landed on one leg what a chance for second Landing involved the slightest of touchdown on both feet and then a hop to the uninjured one to stay upright her efforts carried the team to gold at Atlanta 1996 wow impressive and also what the announcer didn't say is that when you have a tear of a ligament like that especially initially you get this massive inflammatory response where the knee essentially locks up on you remember when you tear a ligament it bleeds so you have bruising in the air you have swelling in the air edema all this buildup so that you have no range motion with that I don't even know how she sprinted through ITX oh my God everyone's falling on their faces some concussions especially with that level of speed and deceleration lots of symptoms brain fog difficulty concentrating light sensitivity noise sensitivity imagine you're young person now every time you go out to a party there's loud noises and lights you can't even be comfortable that's the smallest part of it yeah and that's really the culmination of the the camaraderie that we see oh what the heck happened just a really awkward fall into the sand pit he had a hamstring tendon tear a knee contusion a tear in the ligaments of the right foot interesting I'm surprised he didn't tear his PCL based on the motion of his knee moving back I guess a foot got caught on the jump on the explosive part of the jump that's going to be a really long rehab process 8 to 12 months and Angelica benston of SW the pvt as an event scares the life out of me you're going fast there's a giant sharp object and it reminds me of the nights tale jousting watch What's Happening Here on her third attempt she looks okay but where is that piece flying to I paused it and I see the trajectory oh see anything like that obviously guys PV va's the only Sport and the only event in track and field your life is in your you have to trust what's in your hand you it's so oh the pole broke does that happen is that a faulty pole there are multiple instances of this happening at the FPS faulty pole syndrome oh FPS new diagnosis some people thought I'm at first person shooter but no I was worried because of where I paused it that that piece was shooting out into the audience well the good news was she was okay the better news is she's afforded another try as a I hope so I mean you're stick broke to try to join him at the next height oh and she did it thrust in her new pole she gets over the bar that's what I always say if you fall off the horse get another pole just like in Formula 1 you want to be in pole position if the pole the first pole isn't in the north try going south contribute to your local poll station M did he get hit by the stick on his finger did he get stick did he get finger stick oh no not finger stick penile stick it was pole on pole violence oh my God that's just a freak accident because it's not usually what happens it's so rare but it can happen and what are you doing you're flying 16 ft 17 ft good luck trying to avoid your Pole from from getting cut that's two pole accidents this is becoming very polarizing we're out of the pole clips now so I'm glad you got it out of your system Francisco Lazaro overheats this Portuguese marathon runner was his country's flag bearer during the 1912 Summer Games in Stockholm this only makes the tragedy hit that much harder it's very easy to overheat when performing vigorous activity and overheating doesn't just mean temperature it also means fluid and electrolyte disregulation and when you have that that ultimately causes organ failure and when you have organ failure then you have even bigger problems before the marathon Lazaro covered his body in animal fat to help prevent sunburn I guess before sunblock there were other avenues this layer of fatty wax prevented his skin from sweating yeah I was going to say that feels weird and he suffered a fatal imbalance of electrolytes cuz by putting that fat you essentially put a lipid layer over your skin therefore making your pores clogged and making it difficult to have proper sweating and thereby proper evaporation and thereby proper cooling with less cooling you can develop serious symptoms of heat stroke he collapsed 19 M into the race and passed away with a body temperature of 105 he became the first athlete to die in the modern Olympics and 23,000 people attended his memorial service in the Olympic Stadium this is why it's so important that when you're sweating sweating a lot you're losing a lot of fluids you understand that you're also losing a lot of salt and that's why professional athletes really take their electrolyte balance seriously and consume enough salt especially throughout their events that's why when I look at something like Prime energy it doesn't have enough salt in it to do the trick and I know why they don't add the salt it would make it a better athletic beverage but it would make it taste worse therefore less people would buy it in the second half New Zealand's ktie Glen suffered a nasty headed injury did she get hit in the face oh right in the back Chris Aila did this so much to me during my match I swear to God I was actually telling the ref one time like hit me in the back of my head and then my legs tripped up I was like looking at the ref for like hey man say something to him and people thought I wanted out I didn't want out I wanted a fair fight five Staples and two sutures later Glenn returned to the pitch and completed the game same day wow CH penalty shootout it's hog this looks like fun and she slots it home was that good the Netherlands are through to the gold medal game wow well done Netherlands good at soccer and field hockey and I'm sure a bunch of other sports but those the only ones I'm aware of within the men's 400 meter final viewers around the world were United behind more than a team but also one injured athlete just over halfway through the 400 met semifinal event knee from what was later confirmed pull up like that Happ and rehabbing it is so so difficult I mean you have to be very very careful cuz any explosive movement can just re-trigger it in fact I'm not going to lie when I had it popped the first time every time I sprinted after that even if I was warmed up ready to go I still had this like little traumatic feeling in the back of my head that I needed to take it easy on that hamstring the image of Derek Redmond hoisting himself up limping on and then carried over the finish line by his own father to a standing ovation because Derek had to finish his race has become nothing short of historic pretty sure that's illegal okay can't have someone help you over the Finish Line in the springboard preliminaries Greg lanus met disaster oh what happened would be one of the most haunting and memorable moments of the games he's doing good he's doing good he's doing good he's doing good he's going to hit his head I have to pause it is he going to hit his head no no oh my God I feel it oh oh I'm so worried for his cervical vertebrae he did come immediately out of the PO and was assisted then are they holding his hand into a training room and they worked on him they worked on him I mean I think they needed to get him stacked to an emergency center with his sepine stabilized lugana struck his head on the diving board mid attempt suffering a concussion not to mention a gnarly wound that required multiple stitches I can't imagine how much bleeding there was the scalp bleeds so much on his very next qualifying dive lugus earned a high score to advance to the finals wow overcoming the fear and the trauma of it all conversations around linus' head injury took on a second life after he publicly came out at the 1994 gay games and published an autobiography announcing to the world that he was HIV positive some people including prominent members of the ioc criticized Theus for not disclosing his HIV status immediately after his injury oh that's interesting because for me as a boxer for example because I have a professional boxing life since I had to submit HIV and hepatitis testing before my boxing match that was the norm I'm surprised that the Olympics still do this maybe they do now maybe it was just like a Time issue given that other Olympians were using the same pool I understand the concern but I'm very confident that there's no recorded instances of HIV being transferred or transmitted in the midst of a pool the virus doesn't survive really outside the body in this way chlorine would kill it immediately so I don't think that that is something people need to be concerned with this is actually pretty similar to a question that I asked my nephew when I gave him a sex ed quiz about whether or not sperm dies in a hot tub click here check that out and as always stay happy and healthy [Music]

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