Tom Segura Fully Explains His Dunk Injury

the jurogan experience we should probably tell people what happened if people who don't know don't pay attention you and bert were doing this dunk challenge we so we were shooting content for our live show which was a new year's eve live so that was like exciting we had done one before where um we played tennis and we you know we had like just goofy [ __ ] there's [ __ ] around and we shot some sketches and stuff so we we have this idea we're like we competed let's compete let's do basketball and then we'll do a dunk contest we'll lower the rim and raise it and see who can dunk on the highest rim and that'll be part of the competition you know oh how dare you actually dunking this was the video you just know what they were doing before that's that day yeah that's that how high is that one that one's like eight right and then what's regulation ten can you dunk it ten no i dunked at nine though that's why i beat bert so this is like eight and a half right there and then the nine this is nine right here right so i beat him he couldn't do it and it was over that's over right there and then you did so right there they're all like oh and bert's like holy [ __ ] cause he couldn't do it and i'm like oh it's over and there's tristan jass we went with he's like a really talented kid basketball i won one excuse me i won and uh and then right after this one of those guys goes uh i think you got you can go a little higher and i was like i remember i felt the adrenaline you know when someone's like you got this and you're like you feel like your throat kind of tightened up yeah you know and that was they raised it three inches that's it from from that nine three so you know just because i i i didn't have a lot more room i was like oh that was like it was clean but i was like i can't i can't go that much higher and just on the push off push off on the left foot my left patellar tendon snapped now did you strain it before that not that i knew of i mean eventually when i talked to the doctor about it he was like this probably would have happened like doing something else what yeah why he's just like you know he said it was such a strange place for the terror to take place he's like it took he first he goes he goes you know it took a tremendous amount of force to to do what you did how did you do this i was like [ __ ] dunk contest and he was like what i was like dunk contest he was like a slam dunk contest and i was like yeah dude he was like okay he goes well normally these patellar tendons snap in like one or two places and like you're snapped in a place that it rarely happens in like it's not at one of the attachment points it was like a quarter of the way down it's like it's very strange the way it snapped hmm so didn't you do like deadlifts or something the day before that i did squats three days before were you sore when you went to the dunking thing no we did i was doing 255 uh sets of 12. okay so not really heavy weight not crazy weight and like i mean but not super light but like you know being able to i didn't have a problem with it and then you know what i do remember this that someone reminded me of this afterwards at my office that i do remember they were betting whether i could do nine feet at the office some people were like yes no and i jumped in my office in like jeans and a t-shirt and touched the ceiling there and i was like that felt funny oh something felt funny in your knee yeah here's the thing about tendons and ligaments especially ligaments when they snap they don't hurt i didn't hurt at all yeah it didn't hurt at all they just give out it just gave out and i don't know if i would have felt pain if it wasn't for landing on my arm and snapping my humerus in half and that pain was so severe that was so hard to watch it was extraordinary pain and then when bert takes it and pulls it yeah why did he do that i think he was like you're right but i think he was everyone's in shock should have he have done that is that bad doesn't have your arm like that yeah it's not you do you're not supposed to move it you're supposed to leave it there yeah yeah yeah and i have radial nerve damage and that you know some people would argue that it could be exacerbated by being moved but some people would say that you know it didn't oh yeah right there yeah yeah it hurts so much man i could only imagine it hurts so much uh i could only imagine and then you know that i i did something pretty crazy uh so i went to a hospital immediately right from the paramedics came and as soon as i as soon as i got to that hospital i looked around i don't know where i am or anything i was like i'm not staying here so they why i just knew it was a shitty hospital where were you anyone saying i don't want to say but i just knew i just knew instinctively i was like really yeah and my memory is so you know when you have like intense experiences your memory's so sharp from it like i remember so every detail of like a month like everything wow people i remember everyone's name you know so i got that emergency remember that scott was in the bed next to me and then this uh nurse came in we did x-rays and there you know they put this straight brace on my leg they're like you know tendon snapped and then they did a horrible job wrapping this arm in like a makeshift kind of splint brace you know and i was like and then they're just pumping me through they're like how much pain are you and i'm like all of it what are you talking about like all the pain they're giving me drugs and then they're like we need to have surgery you know so i i called my primary physician and i was like who should operate on me and he's like dude like the two people i would send you to are out of town right now i was like all right so the emergency room doctor there's like i'll set you up with this person that can do surgery tomorrow and i was like no i'm not doing it here really and i was like i'm leaving and they're like you want to leave here and i was like yep they're like your your leg and your arm are like completely non-working i was like i don't care they're like are you sure i go yeah so lindsay who works with me who was there filming like getting his car i mean it was hard you got a guy named lindsay working for you yeah yeah okay he'll hey he'll hear this give it to him man give it to him might want to change that name so yeah is he he him no no no he's he's he's his pronoun he's very he him yeah so that's his yeah yeah but he doesn't put it in his signature but he's a he's a great guy um so lindsay helps me get in the car sorry lindsay um and he uh drives me home so i just go i go home with a broken and half arm and a leg why didn't he take you to a better hospital it didn't it didn't occur to any of us i didn't go take me to the hospital go home so i went home and bert and leanne had like helped set up this area in our house because our christina's like you know beside herself like so overwhelmed and they were really really great and i got on the couch and i slept on the couch oh my god and then the next morning bert had hired i was like find me one of the [ __ ] like wheelchair drivers like that takes people around he found a guy that for fifty dollars picked us up in a 30 year old van in a 50 year old wheelchair no yes and i was like who the [ __ ] did you find he's like i don't know so he you know i i do i i tell him this i'm always like you know i'm a roll solo like i'll be like i'll go by myself to things i grabbed and i was like don't you [ __ ] leave me in this family this guy don't leave me he's like okay oh my god how old was guy driving the car dude he was he reeked of cigarettes his hair was so long that when he pushed me like in the wheelchair his hair would like be on my back oh my god no but i was in so much pain that i was just like just grinding my teeth he takes me to an orthopedic surgeon like to this office and when i wheel into the office that guy goes what the [ __ ] are you doing here man and i go what he goes you need to go to the hospital like right now and i go really he goes yeah man you need to go to the hospital right now he goes i just saw like with the the x-rays from last night he goes you i mean just go right right now immediately to the emergency room i was like okay he tells me you know this is gonna be easy to fix the tendon's like the real work but just go and it'll be it'll suck for a bit to wait and everything but just go so then i go to cedars in la and then you know you have to wait and we get into like the fast track and bert you know is with me and then eventually i get into a room later that day and then two days later i have surgery and then wow and then from i stay there another few days what'd they do with you for those two days it was like i mean they were pumping me full of drugs they re-wrapped my arm which so they had to take off the old wrap the shitty wrap and i was like no dude and then reset it and re-wrap it oh man yeah that was that was so much pain and then then they operated and then um a couple days later i go to a recovery place like a rehab recovery place for two weeks so that's why that's what you know you're just alone all the time yeah and it's it's strange you know and the two days of waiting was just because they needed operating rooms or just like so i that's the other thing uh i ended up getting like one of the best trauma surgeons so i was like in the trauma ward and and this is like one of the most sought after trauma surgeons so i'm so lucky to get him and i tell him that he's like tell me you know what happened i tell him when i tell him i left that hospital he goes let me tell you something he goes that is crazy but that's one of the smartest things you've ever done wow he was like that was really really smart of you to do imagine they butchered you yeah he goes you know because it was basically like that these two operations are major operations and like i have titanium plates in here you know and like so what does scar look like um it's just like it's pretty gnarly i mean take your jar and chocolate yeah see the whole thing now how long ago was this uh december 1st and the surgery was december 4th bro that is a crazy scar so they went right through your bicep yeah and uh i love that one of the guys pull that up pull it up that's why i'm dead and i still have like radial nerve damage you know yeah not damage excuse me bruising so it's gonna take like they said up to 16 18 months like month by month it gets a little better like i couldn't pull my wrist up like this before if i raised my hand it would just go like that when did this when it become better like a month ago when i can grip things but i can't use my extenders like my hand doesn't open all the way so when you do you have to like do it yeah or like i just have to place it but when you place it can you grab that yes can you do a chin up no definitely not wow yeah cause i'm i'm i'm lifting weights like four or five days a week but it's all light and it has to have to like i just got permission to do for for like months it was 15 pounds you can only lift 15 pounds in this arm and then he gave me permission to go up so i did 20 and if i did rows i can do like 25 30. but it's all everything here atrophied you know like doubt the whole the whole rotator cuff area supe much much weaker it's it's weird like you're like that's not heavy but then it feels heavy you know oh wow you know and same thing with like your leg like i can do seated squats holding weight here but i can't like put you know weight on my back right like but but you know you do it like little by little and you see the little changes yeah i've been through a gang of surgeries yeah yeah yeah i've had both of my knees reconstructed oh so yeah but like when this thing was in a straight brace for six weeks when that thing came off i mean you look at my quad it was just like weird right whoa and you put it next to the other one and you're like oh my god it's weird how quick it happens yeah it happens real fast you know the whole thing is that the experience becomes like so intense i i don't think like i can communicate it to people fully who who haven't either experienced it or the only people who like totally get it like the intensity of the experience and how it affects you are the pts because they've seen it they work with you know orthopedic injuries every day like they know that it affects you like physically mentally and emotionally nobody prepares you for that yeah so you have a full year and a half really before you left that right they told me that you know they're like that leg they go consider that a year like a year before it's a what you were used to before the arm it's like they go they've seen the nerve stuff because your your nerve regenerates at one millimeter a day so i don't have a dam i don't have like a like a cut nerve but they're like one millimeter a day is you know it's really really small yeah so they're like yeah we've seen people recover in four months from their radial nerve stuff and then we've seen people that take like 18 months so it goes just up in the air now did you um look into peptides or anything else has any of that stuff helped you i mean i've taken them and i i feel better i feel good you know and i'm like you know i'm eating really clean i'm i you look good i'm saying when i as soon as i saw you like you look thin yeah okay face looks healthy yeah i feel i feel good and um you know the truth is i don't know what effect the peptides have i take them right and um i i religiously like i follow that schedule but to me it all feels like part of kind of the ritual of rehab so like it's like it's part it's dieting it's exercise peptide like all that is part of the recovery and are you doing the rehab through a physical therapist yeah yeah i got a great one how many days a week you're doing that we were at three days a week then we went down to two um and then like now i don't really need i don't need rehab anymore on my leg i mean i need to work out and get it stronger which i do but i don't need her to to rehab it dr karen juber she's awesome um but she's been doing some of my uh like shoulder arm stuff uh working on this but the leg is pretty much like just get it stronger now yeah you just look normal when you're walking around you don't have a limp at all yeah which was surprising i was like it's only four minutes yeah yeah yeah isn't that crazy yeah yeah catch new episodes of the joe rogan experience for free only on spotify watch back catalog jre videos on spotify including clips easily seamlessly switch between video and audio experience on spotify you can listen to the jre in the background while using other apps and can download episodes to save on data cost all for free spotify is absolutely free you don't have to have a premium account to watch new jre episodes you just need to search for the jre on your spotify app go to 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Length: 15min 34sec (934 seconds)

Published: Sat Apr 10 2021