Every Bone in the Human Body and How They Break
November 25, 2022 3:07 PM Subscribe
Do they do the little ones in the ear?
posted by The otter lady at 5:26 PM on November 25, 2022 [4 favorites]
posted by The otter lady at 5:26 PM on November 25, 2022 [4 favorites]
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posted by clavdivs at 5:36 PM on November 25, 2022 [1 favorite]
Do they do the little ones in the ear?
I was wondering the same thing but also....you probably have bigger issues if one of the ear bones was broken.
posted by 922257033c4a0f3cecdbd819a46d626999d1af4a at 5:42 PM on November 25, 2022 [1 favorite]
I was wondering the same thing but also....you probably have bigger issues if one of the ear bones was broken.
posted by 922257033c4a0f3cecdbd819a46d626999d1af4a at 5:42 PM on November 25, 2022 [1 favorite]
Ha! That was fun. And educational too. Very well presented. Thanks for posting that!
posted by ThatCanadianGirl at 5:50 PM on November 25, 2022 [2 favorites]
posted by ThatCanadianGirl at 5:50 PM on November 25, 2022 [2 favorites]
Yes they cover the teeny ear bones. But no John Wick clip for those.
posted by njohnson23 at 5:52 PM on November 25, 2022 [2 favorites]
posted by njohnson23 at 5:52 PM on November 25, 2022 [2 favorites]
Love you aniola. I would have been happy with a longer section on the hip joints but that's just my personal problem.
posted by supermedusa at 6:36 PM on November 25, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by supermedusa at 6:36 PM on November 25, 2022 [1 favorite]
One way you can tell you're getting old is how much more you cringe during movie fight scenes. Or even watching young athletes having an "off". I watch a lot of motorcycle racing and the young dudes riding get up and shake off spills that would require an elite team of surgeons to (try and) piece me back together, assuming I didn't have the good sense to just summon the grim reaper where I lay.
posted by maxwelton at 6:44 PM on November 25, 2022 [6 favorites]
posted by maxwelton at 6:44 PM on November 25, 2022 [6 favorites]
I broke my first bone this year at the ripe old age of 52! Hit a bottle in the dark in front of Pioneer Square in Seattle on my way to King Street station, blew out the front tire on my bike and went down, and smashed my left hand into a plastic jersey barrier placed for some construction. Humans are such a weird mix of fragile and tough. I didn't even realize I'd broken anything until I noticed my hand wasn't working correctly.
Broke the fourth metacarpal on my left hand, which though not painful, I do not recommend. Was heading into work when it happened, which conveniently enough is in IT in a hospital down south, so I shrugged, wheeled my bike the rest of the way to the train, and went on in to work. Boy howdy, but changing a bicycle tire with a broken hand is not a lot of fun. Neither was the ride in the rest of the way.
One of the nurses I work with insists I must have a high pain tolerance, but I've had to explain several times that the strangest bit was that I never experienced a single bit of pain from the break itself. Was the damnedest thing. It's not pain tolerance if there's no pain, I keep saying. Plenty of aches and pains, sore ribs and muscles from the tumble itself, but nothing from the broken bone.
Still, one round of surgery later I'm officially a cyborg, so I've got that going for me. Little weird though, seeing what are basically titanium wood screws in my hand.
posted by los pantalones del muerte at 9:52 PM on November 25, 2022 [4 favorites]
Broke the fourth metacarpal on my left hand, which though not painful, I do not recommend. Was heading into work when it happened, which conveniently enough is in IT in a hospital down south, so I shrugged, wheeled my bike the rest of the way to the train, and went on in to work. Boy howdy, but changing a bicycle tire with a broken hand is not a lot of fun. Neither was the ride in the rest of the way.
One of the nurses I work with insists I must have a high pain tolerance, but I've had to explain several times that the strangest bit was that I never experienced a single bit of pain from the break itself. Was the damnedest thing. It's not pain tolerance if there's no pain, I keep saying. Plenty of aches and pains, sore ribs and muscles from the tumble itself, but nothing from the broken bone.
Still, one round of surgery later I'm officially a cyborg, so I've got that going for me. Little weird though, seeing what are basically titanium wood screws in my hand.
posted by los pantalones del muerte at 9:52 PM on November 25, 2022 [4 favorites]
oof! Like maxwelton I must be getting old, because I had to switch Dr Raynor off after 2 minutes. It's a great idea though to emphasize how everything inside is interconnected and mutually supportive.
25 years ago, I was whacked off my bike by an early adopter of txtn while driving [tribs to Herzog] and had two visits with an irascible orthopedic surgeon. I hoped, but doubted, he treated the elderly lady after me on the list with a little more empathy than I got. A few months later, a pal broke 20% of his ~206 bones in a head-on car crash and arrived at the hospital just as the same orthopedic surgeon was going off-shift. The surgeon scrubbed up and spent another 5 hours doing triage on my mate, who survived to walk and think [and 2 more kids!] again despite having cardiac arrest twice in recovery. I can see why some surgeons expect to be treated like gods.
posted by BobTheScientist at 12:41 AM on November 26, 2022 [3 favorites]
25 years ago, I was whacked off my bike by an early adopter of txtn while driving [tribs to Herzog] and had two visits with an irascible orthopedic surgeon. I hoped, but doubted, he treated the elderly lady after me on the list with a little more empathy than I got. A few months later, a pal broke 20% of his ~206 bones in a head-on car crash and arrived at the hospital just as the same orthopedic surgeon was going off-shift. The surgeon scrubbed up and spent another 5 hours doing triage on my mate, who survived to walk and think [and 2 more kids!] again despite having cardiac arrest twice in recovery. I can see why some surgeons expect to be treated like gods.
posted by BobTheScientist at 12:41 AM on November 26, 2022 [3 favorites]
One of the nurses I work with insists I must have a high pain tolerance, but I've had to explain several times that the strangest bit was that I never experienced a single bit of pain from the break itself. Was the damnedest thing. It's not pain tolerance if there's no pain, I keep saying. Plenty of aches and pains, sore ribs and muscles from the tumble itself, but nothing from the broken bone.
You were probably both in shock and fucked up the nerve into shutting down.
I had a bike crash where I was knocked out cold for a couple of minutes. It was a week later that I, a heavily bearded guy, realized that I had hit my jaw square on the ground because I finally felt that bruising. I was however extremely aware of the bruising of my entire left side of my body and severe pain of my unbroken arm that was pinned beneath me when I crashed and while I was unconscious.
My takeaway was that both my body and I are extremely unreliable narrators of my internal story. Which makes me a shitty patient for doctors who seem to want and expect really clear description of symptoms.
posted by srboisvert at 2:20 AM on November 26, 2022 [1 favorite]
You were probably both in shock and fucked up the nerve into shutting down.
I had a bike crash where I was knocked out cold for a couple of minutes. It was a week later that I, a heavily bearded guy, realized that I had hit my jaw square on the ground because I finally felt that bruising. I was however extremely aware of the bruising of my entire left side of my body and severe pain of my unbroken arm that was pinned beneath me when I crashed and while I was unconscious.
My takeaway was that both my body and I are extremely unreliable narrators of my internal story. Which makes me a shitty patient for doctors who seem to want and expect really clear description of symptoms.
posted by srboisvert at 2:20 AM on November 26, 2022 [1 favorite]
Shock and concussion do weird things. A few years ago, I hit trolley tracks and went headfirst over my handlebars and landed on the sidewalk. Helmet cracked. Don't remember the moment of impact, just a passerby helping me up. Decided to take the bus the rest of the way to work. Passed out on the bus going over the South St bridge, got off the bus at my usual stop. Briefly thought "hm, I just hit my head and then fainted, maybe I should go to the ER," then was like "nah, let me stop at Wawa for an ice cream sandwich" which I munched on in the elevator up to my office. As soon as I walked in the door, our receptionist was like "what happened to you??" Which is when I realized I was bleeding from both knees and my left elbow. X-rays later confirmed a volar plate avulsion fracture in my right hand, thus ending my dream of modeling rings for Tiffany's. But no pain throughout, just the world's most delicious ice cream sandwich.
Bones. Important. Don't break 'em.
posted by basalganglia at 5:48 AM on November 26, 2022 [3 favorites]
Bones. Important. Don't break 'em.
posted by basalganglia at 5:48 AM on November 26, 2022 [3 favorites]
You were probably both in shock and fucked up the nerve into shutting down.
You'd think that, wouldn't you?
Nonetheless, I recall easily making the conscious decision—once I'd determined it was most likely broken—to go on and catch the train since working in a hospital would just make it less hassle to handle it there. Hopped on the train, made the twenty minute journey south grumbling to myself the entire time because 'Oh for the love of God I'm left handed. I do NOT need this annoyance right now.' Hopped off, changed the bike tire—being royally irritated for the entire procedure because I had only the use of my thumb and index finger on the left hand. Rode twenty minutes into work, chatted with a coworker to work out the details of actually using the emergency department since I'd never used one before, and continued chatting with nurses and doctors while they bound up my hand, then caught a ride home a bit later.
No way around it, a very strange experience. I even remember wondering if I were in danger of going into shock, and deciding that if I were, as a cranky person I must live in a state of perpetual shock because the only thing I was feeling was the same general irritation I feel every day at the world's recalcitrant refusal to bend to my will.
At no point did that bone ever give me so much as a twinge, not even after surgery a week later. I took exactly 2 ibuprofen after surgery just in case, and never so much as opened the Hydrocodone they gave me. I don't think I'm some superman though. The surgeon did mention when I asked about the odd lack of pain that the fourth metacarpal is an excellent one to break if you're gonna break one, since it's well supported on either side and is frequently one that doesn't produce much pain. So unlucky to have a break, but lucky in the one I broke I guess.
But anyway, yes the video was pretty neat. Bones are cool.
posted by los pantalones del muerte at 11:29 AM on November 26, 2022 [2 favorites]
You'd think that, wouldn't you?
Nonetheless, I recall easily making the conscious decision—once I'd determined it was most likely broken—to go on and catch the train since working in a hospital would just make it less hassle to handle it there. Hopped on the train, made the twenty minute journey south grumbling to myself the entire time because 'Oh for the love of God I'm left handed. I do NOT need this annoyance right now.' Hopped off, changed the bike tire—being royally irritated for the entire procedure because I had only the use of my thumb and index finger on the left hand. Rode twenty minutes into work, chatted with a coworker to work out the details of actually using the emergency department since I'd never used one before, and continued chatting with nurses and doctors while they bound up my hand, then caught a ride home a bit later.
No way around it, a very strange experience. I even remember wondering if I were in danger of going into shock, and deciding that if I were, as a cranky person I must live in a state of perpetual shock because the only thing I was feeling was the same general irritation I feel every day at the world's recalcitrant refusal to bend to my will.
At no point did that bone ever give me so much as a twinge, not even after surgery a week later. I took exactly 2 ibuprofen after surgery just in case, and never so much as opened the Hydrocodone they gave me. I don't think I'm some superman though. The surgeon did mention when I asked about the odd lack of pain that the fourth metacarpal is an excellent one to break if you're gonna break one, since it's well supported on either side and is frequently one that doesn't produce much pain. So unlucky to have a break, but lucky in the one I broke I guess.
But anyway, yes the video was pretty neat. Bones are cool.
posted by los pantalones del muerte at 11:29 AM on November 26, 2022 [2 favorites]
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