- [Announcer] Breaks the tackle. - Oh my gosh, look at that ankle! Oh!
(beep) Getting your bell rung,
gnarly ankle fractures, and what in the heart
attack is happening here? In honor of football season
kicking off here in the US, today we are reacting to all
the possible career-ending medical scenes and jaw
dropping injuries from the NFL. - Come on football, go, go! - [Doctor] Let's dive right in. (beep) - [Announcer] This is the play where Tua Tagovailoa was chased down and- - Oh! Ouch, head injury! Once you start having neurologic findings with these type of head injuries,
it gets pretty concerning. - [Announcer] The dynamic
quarterback was clearly in pain, his fingers clinched. - [Doctor] The hands
doing something abnormal. This is a seizure. If you get knocked out,
if you get unconscious, and you have a syncopal episode, you can have this motion as well. - [Announcer] Lying
there for several minutes before he was taken off
the field on a stretcher. - [Doctor] Good, they
got him off the field. You do see spine precautions. Typically, you don't
necessarily need imaging of somebody who has a concussion. Somebody bumped their head and they have a little bit of a headache. You may not need to. - [Announcer] But many are questioning why he was on the field to begin with. - Interesting. - [Announcer] On Sunday,
just four days earlier, against the Buffalo Bills, Tua
hit his head on the ground, grabbed his face mask, shook his head, before stumbling to the ground. - Yeah. Concussions. You're getting head trauma. The brain shakes around in your
skull, depends on your age, but doesn't necessarily
shake and rattle around at a younger age, but as
we get a little bit older, the brain starts to shrink a little bit. - [Announcer] The team
called it a back injury and he returned to the game. - Yeah, so multiple injuries to the head, especially in football, can
cause something called CTE. Typically, once you start having
three or more concussions, doctors, sports medicine
individuals are kinda like, "You need to either
stop doing this activity or figure out how to protect yourself." - [Announcer] You gotta keep it. Prescott breaks the tackle. - Oh my gosh, look at that ankle! Oh! Not anatomically in the right position. Immediately you think fracture
or dislocation, obviously, it's not rocket science to
figure that component out. You do want to put this
back in sooner than later. - [Announcer] Oh, oh no! Oh.
- It's caught underneath. Yes. Ouch. Looks like a
simple dislocation, right? Just because of the way
that it slid right out. But a lot of times dislocations
come with fractures when it comes to the ankle. - [Announcer] You almost gotta
hope it's a cramp, don't you? If you're a Cowboy fan right there but- - So what ends up happening
in that situation, multiple different things occur. If it's just a dislocation,
put that back in. If it is fractured with a dislocation, you need to have surgery. We often see a fracture
with a dislocation. - [Announcer] Oh, no. Oh, you could just see that at the bottom. Just, oh! - Having the joint out
increases the risk of arthritis and long-term problems later. So we put it back in and then we call the orthopedic surgeon. Sometimes you'll have immediate surgery right then and there, or they may wait. It just depends on how the surgeon feels the amount of swelling
that's already there. Oh! I remember this! And collapse. Wow! That's Damar Hamlin! And he actually goes into cardiac arrest. ♪ Cardiac arrest ♪ He has something called commotio cordis. Basically, it's when you have, typically, blunt trauma
directed at the heart. - [Announcer] Not what
any of us wanna see, and now everybody's around him, and let's hope that he's gonna be okay. - If you hit just right, maybe, just wrong, just when you're at the perfect part of your
depolarization-repolarization cycle, then it goes into this situation. - [Announcer] Darryl Stingley
was a New England Patriots wide receiver from 1973 to 1977. In a 1978 preseason game
against the Oakland Raiders on August 12th, Stingley was hit- - Oh, man! Direct linear force probably
causing some blowout fractures of the cervical spine. - [Announcer] As Stingley
stretched for a pass, he and Tatum collided. Stingley's helmet, made contact
with Tatum's shoulder pad compressing his spinal cord and breaking his fourth and
fifth cervical vertebrae. - When he describes that it's
compressing the spinal cord, meaning the structure of
the bones of your neck, because the only way to
compress the spinal cord itself is if there's no structure around it. - [Announcer] He eventually
regained limited movement in his right arm, but spent the rest of his
life as a quadriplegic. The injury came just after Stingley had finished negotiating
a contract extension that would've made him one
of the highest paid receivers in the NFL.
- Wow! Quadriplegic, meaning all four limbs are not working appropriately. If you start going higher than that, you run the risk of not
being able to breathe. Just like where Superman,
Christopher Reeve, had a high cervical spine injury, thus he needed a tube to help him breathe. Seeing these injuries reminds me of all the injuries I've had and how important it is to
get a good night's sleep to repair my body. If you, my friend, are looking
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lifehappens.com and on Amazon. - [Rashad] Boom, I hit it, happened. I got up and it happens a lot. You have a shoulder and you're kind of just
trying to rub it out, like my hand was just throbbing. - Thinking it's maybe like a nerve or a stinger causing
like pain to the hand. Okay, that's normal. - Sure, that's normal. - And I look down and before I know it, my white glove is fire hot red. There's blood everywhere. I come off the field, you
know, just thinking like, "Hey, maybe I lost a nail." Maybe, you know, something happened there and before I know it I could
feel my heartbeat in my hand. - That's quite common when people say they feel their heartbeat. It's just your normal pulse beating literally due to the dilation
of your blood vessels due to increased blood flow. You just feel it more
where there's an injury because it's just more
intense in that spot. - [Rashad] They've taken the glove off, thrown it in the trash can, and from my nail portion up
in my left middle finger, it's completely severed. The blood is spewing off onto the wall. - We deal with this in
the emergency department where people lose tips of fingers. You can have it traumatically ripped off. I've even seen people who use those, like, upside down back stretchers. The mechanism where it
actually pivots from get their fingers caught
and rip their fingers off. - [Rashad] And lo and
behold, they pull my glove- - And the finger's there? - [Rashad] Out of the trash can. It just falls right there on the table. - Well, yeah, there you go. Wow! Unfortunately, when it's a
very distal end like that, the likelihood, even if you
have the piece of re plantation, is very little and minimal, only because the vessels
and the attachment areas are very small. Oh, that's an ankle! Ouch! That is definitely anatomically
the wrong direction. I don't think that's a sprain. Could be a sprain, but it looks more like a
fracture or a dislocation. Hard to know exactly here
because you don't see, like, bones sticking out, it's
not breaking through the skin or significantly protruding
in one way or the other. It's just significantly rotated. - [Announcer] And no doubt that ground caused the fumble there and that ball will stay with the Vikings, but Gordon is injured on the play. - You can snap either
the medial malleolus, the lateral malleolus, both. You can have a dislocation
needing emergent surgery, pins and rods and screws or plates. Just depends on the type of injury. - [Announcer] Bro hit in the end zone that left him on the ground. Hands visibly shaking. - Head injury leading to
almost seizure-like activity. Abnormal movements that
you're not controlling is because the brain is getting
traumatized and injured. - [Announcer] But he was
allowed to return to the game before ultimately being
sidelined with a concussion. - I can't believe he is
allowed to go back to the game. - I'm ready to go in,
coach, just gimme a chance. - Like, putting these
people back in the game, like, please don't do this! This is your brain.
This is super sensitive. You only got one of 'em. You know, we haven't figured
out brain transplants yet. Like, don't put yourself at
risk for chronic problems. Football, we know football
is a pretty intense sport with a lot of traumatic-type injuries. If you guys enjoyed this and
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