- 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. Here's what's legally
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