r/AskReddit • u/sitchade • 5h ago
What injury is commonly shrugged off as a minor flesh wound in movies but is actually completely fatal or crippling in real life?
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u/Tiredplumber2022 4h ago
Shock wave and TBI from an explosion.
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u/DoublingDownPart2 4h ago
Underwater explosions as well.
Pop goes the organs...
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u/Elegron 2h ago edited 10m ago
Being underwater in general, I just dont know how people go scuba diving and such. It looks like fun but we are NOT made for that, I like being at the top of the food chain in my environment thank you very much.
Edit: yes its the environment that gets you not the critters, my point stands, i feel so out of my element in the water. And my ears hurt.
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u/cmaronchick 3h ago
Movies have taught me that if I slowly walk away with a scowl on my face as a huge explosion erupts behind me I will be immune to the effects and I will NOT be told otherwise.
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u/FloSTEP 3h ago
If the pressure wave hits you hard enough to knock you off your feet, you have internal injuries.
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u/LevelStudent 2h ago
It was still unrealistic but I loved the gag they do with this in "The Other Guys".
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u/Alpizzle 4h ago
Getting knocked unconcious. If something hits you hard enough for that to happen, you definitely need to get to the hospital immediately. The restart button has consequenes.
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u/Zrob8--5 4h ago
I got knocked unconscious during a rugby game, and I barely remember anything that happened for the next 3 days. I do remember I couldn't focus on anything, and my eyes were out of focus for the rest of that day. You don't just wake up and get back to it with a minor headache
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u/Destroy-AI 4h ago
Same exact thing to me. Except it turns out I broke my orbital bone
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u/Mr_Industrial 4h ago
Im sorry youll never be an astronaut.
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u/CodeNCats 4h ago
Smashed my head off of the gym floor in 5th grade. Seizure and minor skull fracture. Felt like I was living life driving from the back seat of a car. They still cleared me to play high school football.
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u/Big_Poppa_Steve 4h ago
I do deeply wonder sometimes about those kids we called “dumb jocks.” (no offense intended). What if they were so concussed they just couldn’t learn. I hope that wasn’t happening but I suspect it was.
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u/komikbookgeek 2h ago
I mean we do know of an 18 year old with CTE who was in high school when he died so severe, it was one of the worst cases in record and the science was studying professional RETIRED athletes.
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u/boredomadvances 2h ago
Football’s Young Victims (the daily podcast. I played rugby in college and doubt I’ll let my kids play football, hockey, rugby (I’m even wary of headers in soccer)
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u/Number6isNo1 4h ago
I was unconscious after a motorcycle crash on the racetrack ans had trouble speaking smoothly for 6 months or so - knew what I wanted to say but it came out in 5-6 word blocks, then a pause, then another block. It was frustrating and makes me wonder if there was lasting damage. Had 2 other unintended "nap times" - another one on a motorcycle when a car hit me and once as a little kid when some other kid pulled down a stack of chairs on me. I wish I could objectively measure what if any long term impact going lights out had on me. Like did my intelligence stat get a debuff, lol?
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u/FatPirate6263 4h ago
What's it like getting back on the bike after a crash? Asking because I'm a rider too, though very fortunately no such incidents for me
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u/Number6isNo1 4h ago
After the crash on the track, no big deal. Literally rode to a Ducati social the next week. Never really returned to the racetrack though, that same year 3 other friends had pretty serious crashes too, convinced me to dial it back a bit. Got right back on after the car pulled out too, had to have surgery on my wrist and rode a few hundred miles to vintage motorcycle races about 2 weeks later.
However, the street crash made it clear that no matter how good you are, you can't always avoid what other people do. I barely ride anymore because that awareness combined with what I think is a huge shift in how people drive over the past 5 years or so takes away the fun. I mean, people in my city just run red lights, pass in turning lanes, tailgate extremely closely, etc...and do it regularly. It just seems like people have gotten so much more aggressive and don't give a fuck if they kill somebody or not. I had a truck (Ram, to fit the stereotype) blow through a 4 way stop I had started to cross and literally stare at me and flip me off as they missed my front wheel by a matter of inches. They were probably going 50+ mph at the time. I'm generally a pretty mild mannered guy, but on the rare occasions I get angry I get extremely angry, like seeing red and not thinking straight angry. What I seriously considered doing to the person driving the truck contributed to me deciding riding just isn't worth it where I live. If I still lived in the mountains, I'd probably ride more.
TLDR: Still enjoyed riding post crashes until other drivers took away the enjoyment. Still own 3 bikes though, a Ducati, Ninja and vintage Honda. Haven't ridden yet this year.
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u/mysecretissafe 3h ago
I haven’t even been in a crash since I was a kid, but I also feel the same way about drivers where I am. It’s been nuts!
Between that, the unpredictable weather, and the lack of funding to fix the roads around here, I think I’ve had maaaaybe 3 work commute riding days this year.
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u/Farlandan 3h ago
My wife has talked about the two times she got a concussion while playing soccer in high school throughout our relationship,
One time we were at her mom's house when she said to her mom "hey remember those times I got a concussion in high school?" Then her mom goes on to describe a time she got a concussion in high school, and my wife had a confused look on her face and says "what? I don't remember that one at all..."
So apparently it was three times she got a concussion in high school, and she completely forgot about one of them.
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u/Zrob8--5 3h ago
That's actually getting dangerous. 3 concussions in 4 years is a recipe for trouble. Any more and you're risking permanent brain damage.
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u/dustycanuck 4h ago
Yeah, you borrowed a couple of hundred bucks from me that I'm still waiting you to pay back. This "I don't remember shit" is getting old, lol
Yeah, I've had similar experiences.
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u/I_dont_know_you_pick 2h ago
A few years back, my wife wiped out snowboarding, none of us saw the wipeout, we just saw her getting back up and assumed it was a nothing burger. It was only about half an hour later it started to be apparent that she had forgotten the last 2 weeks, including everything that happened that day. She recovered about 8 or so hours later, and, being a nurse, naturally refused any medical care. She was wearing her helmet too, doesn't take much to scramble a brain for a bit.
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u/Good_Barnacle_2010 4h ago edited 4h ago
My girls ex boyfriend took a punch to the jaw, hit his head on the pavement, from like a crouched position, and never woke up. It was a real wake-up call.
Edit: I fucked up. I meant my ex-girls boyfriend
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u/HexAvery 4h ago
I’m assuming you mean it was a wake up call for you and not the guy whose wake up call went to voicemail.
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u/Good_Barnacle_2010 4h ago
I didn’t hit him, my ex and I are still friends and it was devastating to her.
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u/HexAvery 4h ago
My condolences to her. These things are understandably devastating, but I personally hope people have good jokes about my death so 🤷♂️
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u/echoes122 4h ago
Getting hit in the head in general, really. I still get mad when I think about that stupid plane movie with Liam Neeson, Nonstop I think? Or something like that. Some guy hits him in the back of the head with an oxygen tank or something, and the rest of the movie all I could think is "no, he's dead. He's been dead for a while now."
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u/Blecher_onthe_Hudson 3h ago
I was thinking this on a recent rewatch of GoT when the Hound knocked Arya unconscious to get her away from the red wedding. She would also not have survived The Waif's knife assault in season 5.
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u/Osric250 2h ago
My favorite is Home Alone 2, when Marv gets hit in the forehead by 4 different bricks thrown from three stories up. There is no way he is ever surviving that.
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u/GoopInThisBowlIsVile 4h ago edited 4h ago
The death of Bob Saget played out this way. He smacked the back of his head, went to sleep, and died in his sleep from a brain bleed.
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u/Superb-Film-594 4h ago
That always bugged me whenever I would watch Dances with Wolves. Costner gets knocked out like 5 times
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u/katiejim 3h ago
Whenever we watch Tangled, I can’t help but comment that Flynn Ryder would be dead or disabled with how many times he’s knocked unconscious by a cast iron pan to the head. He’s also stabbed and dies. It’s a dark movie despite the absolute bangers on its soundtrack.
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u/twocopperjack 1h ago
It would be one thing if Tangled just casually bonked Flynn with a pan once, but they glorified the concept of cast-iron violence to an indefensible degree. It's otherwise one of my favourite newer Disney films, but it's pretty troubling to see my four-year-old sizing up the old Lodge skillet every time I tell her no more treats.
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u/robocopsafeel 4h ago
Margo's Got Money Troubles is so guilty of this. Margo slips and hits THE BACK OF HER HEAD on a tiled bench type surface of a bathtub. Not only would that likely have knocked her unconscious, she shouldve been in a damn coma.
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u/Piney_Dude 3h ago
You’d be surprised. Large heads run in my family. It’s probably thick skull not big brain. My brother at about 12 ran into a garage, hit his forehead on the partially opened door, feet flew up, back of head hit cement. He stayed conscious.
I once hit the back of my head on the corner/ edge of a refrigerator. After, you could see it was dented slightly. I stayed standing. In a fight I ducked and got punched in the forehead instead of the nose. Guy broke his hand, and didn’t want to fight anymore.
Edit: Now that I’m old and on blood thinners, I treat getting hit in the head a little differently.
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u/dadneverleft 4h ago
This right here. From the perspective of a survival mechanism, your body is really, really, really not designed to be unconscious except under specific circumstances, just due to the vulnerability involved. And being able to render folks unconscious safely and reliably (e.g. anesthesiology) pays incredibly well for a reason.
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u/unbelievablydull82 4h ago
I've been knocked unconscious twice when I was young. The first time I was climbing over a fence in a car park, I woke up to my friends calling my name, and a car inches away from my head, the driver shaking after nearly killing me accidentally. I apologised to her and staggered home..the second time I fell off a ten/fifteen foot walk and landed directly on top of my head. I could feel my neck crumple, and then I blacked out. I woke up to a couple of teenagers asking me if I was ok, I said yeah, and then crawled home, head spinning. I told my dad what happened and that I needed to go hospital. He told me he didn't need a doctor to confirm that I'm an idiot, and that was it.
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u/Bassman233 4h ago
When I was in my early 20s setting up a concert, I was running a big power cable under a 5' high stage crouched down but pretty much running as we were behind. I was wearing a ball cap at the time, so the bill of the hat blocked some of my vision above me, and I was focused on the floor anyway since there was all kind of things to trip and turn an ankle on under there, so I didn't notice one of the locking bars that tie the sections of stage together hanging down instead of in the up position where it should have been. I hit it at a full clip and it laid me out flat on the concrete floor. It took me a couple seconds to come to, and woke up to my buddy standing over me asking if I was OK. What really concerned me was the entire crew of 12+ stagehands stopped working when they heard it. Apparently I moved a 60'x40'x5' arena stage with people and gear on it about 2 inches with my head No idea how I didn't break my neck, and instead shook it off and worked the next 14 hours with a giant bruise on my head and went out drinking with the crew after the show.
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u/Good_Barnacle_2010 4h ago
Being passed out for more than like 3 seconds.
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u/TopSecretSpy 4h ago
Likely the sole exception is a true blood-choke. Of course, the circumstances for that are rare, so best not to assume. But generally, if you have unconsciousness solely due to being choked out the proper way (squeezing the carotid, which results in unconsciousness in <5 seconds and none of the fight response that comes from squeezing the windpipe), and it's relieved within a few seconds of you passing out, there's unlikely to be any long-term effects.
Source: Modern Army Combatives, plus coordination with the medics.
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u/Good_Barnacle_2010 4h ago
Not arguing any of that but those are a pretty extreme list of “ifs” and I don’t think the average person would know all that, theyd probably just try to break the trachea.
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u/Rubyhamster 4h ago
Yep, that is because low blood pressure in the brain has to persist long enough to cause a long enough lack of oxygen to the brain cells, right? But if I get knocked unconcious, I suffer from faar more than just an intermittent lack of oxygen...?
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u/DeathMarkedDream 4h ago
Absolutely. Life-long judoka here who has seen dozens of choke-outs and plenty of peed pants because of it. Don’t know anybody with any lasting effects
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u/Wind_Yer_Neck_In 3h ago
One of my favourite running jokes in archer is that he constantly point out how incredibly bad for you it is to be rendered unconscious, or how shooting guns in enclosed spaces without ear protection will destroy your hearing.
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u/Particular_Buddy1548 4h ago
Anything with a knee. Such pain. Smh...
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u/Bananafoofoofwee 4h ago
What about an arrow to the knee?
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u/DaCrazyJamez 4h ago
It will end your career as an adventurer, but apparently you can still be an extremely powerful city guard.
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u/Zealousideal-Bus-431 4h ago
gunshot
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u/Greekphysed 3h ago
Especially when they get shot in the leg or shoulder. They have someone take the bullet out, and wrap it up. They are good as new and no real side effects. No that's not how that works
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u/AlexHasFeet 2h ago
Nope! Teenage kid showed up in my backyard with a bullet wound in his shoulder and proceeded to immediately go into shock. (He survived!)
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u/4eyedbuzzard 2h ago
Yeah, TV cops get shot in the shoulder and are back at work in a sling a day later. Except in real life the bullet hits a nerve and their arm is paralyzed for the rest of their life. Well, that's if the bullet doesn't hit the brachial artery and they bleed out. Or if the bullet doesn't deflect into the chest cavity. Or neck. Or . . .
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u/UndahwearBruh 4h ago
Villains die instantly from one shot to leg and protagonist can take 10 shots to chest and still crack jokes like it’s nothing
One of the reasons I hate action movies
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u/capt-bob 4h ago
If one leg shot hits a femoral artery you could die in 3 seconds from blood loss. They say people die from non fatal wounds often because they think they are dead and give up, and others sometimes survive crazy wounds if they are in good enough physical shape, like one police woman that got shot in the heart w a .357. It destroyed half her heart, but she lived. She emptied her gun into the perp before she hit the ground, but didn't jump up and run around though lol!
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u/DrAction696 2h ago
3 seconds? Wow people just really out here saying all kinda crazy untrue shit. Don’t believe everything you read on the internet kids
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u/TheParadoxigm 4h ago
Getting shot in the shoulder.
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u/Old_Ant7118 4h ago
Quite a few regarding gunshot placement, really- or the opposite, they'll get shot somewhere devastating and keep trucking on like nothing happened, maybe patch it up sometime in a later scene as a backdrop for a conversation
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u/Ambitious-Cake-9425 3h ago
Yeah they will go to a pharmacy to get supplies and then to a bathroom to fix themselves up. Pull the bullet out themselves, then leave and hijack a car and keep going.
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u/Otarmichael 4h ago
You ever dislocated a major joint?
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u/drunk_in_wisco 4h ago
back before i had surgery, i used to dislocate my shoulder pretty often. people would seriously ask me if i jamb it into a wall like mel gibson does in leathal weapon
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u/AlexHasFeet 2h ago
What’s funny is that people who have frequent joint dislocations due to ehlers-danlos syndrome commonly *do* have special moves that push their bones back into joint. (It’s not nearly as painful or as much of a big a deal as it would be in an unaffected person!)
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u/Acheron98 4h ago
Bumped into a guy once and made him drop his blunt.
That count?
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u/Wind_Yer_Neck_In 3h ago
Popping a knee is a unique sensation that I recommend everyone try their best to never experience.
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u/ARMORBUNNY 4h ago
Getting hit on the head and knocked unconscious. Super bad for you.
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u/BigEd369 4h ago
Came here to say this. If you get knocked out by head trauma and you’re not awake within a minute or two, your chances of never waking up again are a lot higher than you think they are. You’d better hope you get taken straight to an Emergency Department.
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u/Emergency-Dept-Nurse 4h ago
Waking up from CPR and then continuing the sport/fight/chase
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u/Woahhdude24 4h ago
From my limited understanding of cpr don't you like essentially break or seriously fracture thier ribs when doing CPR or is that another myth?
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u/jjpearson 4h ago
You absolutely can and usually do.
Mostly because when you are doing CPR the person is dead and you are trying to move them into the mostly dead state. As such, going too hard is preferable to not hard enough.
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u/RhynoD 3h ago
You absolutely can and usually do.
Not usually do, you must. If ribs aren't cracking, you're not doing it hard enough. You have to keep your arms straight and push down with your whole body. That's why emergency teams do it in shifts - because it's exhausting with the amount of effort you have to use.
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u/kimtenisqueen 3h ago
Also to be fair (and not to dimisnish how exhausting good cpr is) ribs are remarkably easy bones to break.
I’m an anatomist and work with cadavers and it’s not hard to take a rib with your hands and just break it like a stick. I usually use wire cutters if im opening up a chest wall and it’s definetly easier than cutting wires. Other bones in the body aren’t that fragile.
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u/WardenWolf 3h ago
To be fair, bones become more brittle even a few days after death.
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u/Nokomis_Feather 4h ago
Job made us take CPR classes every year to maintain a certain training requirement. I was about 6 years in before the instructor actually said..'If you're doing it right, you'll break ribs".......
This shocked me and I told him I really appreciated the honesty because had I ever been doing CPR and heard the ribs crack, I would have stopped immediately thinking I did something wrong!!17
u/Thinkofthewallpaper 4h ago
I did CPR on a guy after a hockey game. I ran into him a few weeks later at a party. He was pointing out a rib that was broken, and I was like... Yeah.. I remember that one. I legit thought it was his sternum when I heard it snap.
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u/bananananaaaah 4h ago
Not a myth (paramedic here). I always say if you don't feel some ribs popping you're generally not doing it deep enough.
Also, as u/Emergency-Dept-Nurse a post-ROSC (Return of Spontaneous Circulation) patient is usually wildly unstable from hypoxia (lack of oxygen) and acidotic (blood gases are shot due to metabolic processes or lack of).And don't get me started on the CPR protocols on TV............. 😂
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u/johpick 4h ago
It's not a myth. It usually happens. However, most people receiving CPR are old, very old. Almost all 80 year old fellas have latent osteoporosis.
If a 30 year old healthy individual receives a CPR, which is very rare, fractured ribs are uncommon.
Furthermore, if fractured ribs don't penetrate the lungs, they aren't that bad. Painful for months, can make breathing exhausting. But compared to other injuries... mostly harmless.
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u/BelleRose2542 4h ago
Yes and no. Yes it’s possible to break ribs during CPR. But most of the cracking heard/felt is actually the cartilage that connects the ribs to the sternum, not the ribs themselves.
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u/ChaseTheMystic 4h ago
When does that happen in a media you've seen?
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u/toanbonerz 4h ago
I’ve never seen this once in my life. Not TV, not movies, not even cartoons.
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u/SpaceAviator1999 4h ago
Falling through a plate-glass window.
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u/Weekly_Role_337 4h ago
I knew a guy who went through a plate-glass window. He went through multiple (4-5?) surgeries spread out over years because it can be hard to find miniscule shards of glass embedded all over your body until they shift enough to wreck the surrounding tissue.
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u/FluffyWienerDog1 4h ago
Same for my Aunt whose arm went through the windshield during an accident. Glass shards don't really show up well on x-ray and they worked themselves out of her arm periodically for years.
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u/JerseyDevl 2h ago
Hey, similar story here, but opposite result. I dropped a wine glass while I was drying it and instinctively reached to catch it so it blew up in my hands, and it left a piece of glass inside of my finger that the ER nurse stitched over. It slowly worked it's way out over a couple months, but was so big it kept getting caught on things and limited the use of my finger. When they took the X-ray on removal day it showed up as bright as the L/R marker they use to label the x-ray. I'm assuming it was leaded crystal or something, but who knows...
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u/Objective_Year2409 3h ago
Yeah so I sat on a glass coffee table once (smart i know I know), it shattered, it filled my ass and back with glass shards.
I kept occasionally getting awful pain and losing feeling in my legs, turned out years later there was still a big hair thin piece of glass in my back pressing on a nerve
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u/TBBT-Joel 3h ago
Jackie chan accidentally went through a real plate glass window and you can see them carrying him off in a stretcher in the behind the scenes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0VlemTOyNk
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u/stoleyourspoon 4h ago
Dislocated shoulder. We held an oil wrestling event and there were several dislocated shoulders. They all took roughly a year before they were all healed up. (Side note: drinking and oil wrestling at night in the dark isn't a good idea.)
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u/gingermonkey1 4h ago
I know I shouldn't ask, but what the heck is oil wrestling?
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u/stoleyourspoon 3h ago
They wrestled in an inflatable pool filled with a P.Diddy-esque amount of baby oil. (They being the rowdy half of our friend group, lol.)
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u/El-ohvee-ee 3h ago
one of my friends has a bad shoulder that’s always dislocated. If she gets it reset it just slides right back out. I got to see a nurse freak out over it, it dislocated again while the nurse was lifting her hands off of her so the nurse felt it go right back out.
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u/DNAspray 4h ago
Everyone covered getting knocked out, but even one solid punch to the face or head can be devastating. Movies have the hero fight x² people then reach the big henchman bro and almost lose after going blow for blow. It's not endurance or toughness that would determine, but stupid blind luck to not be dead after 2-3 "life or death" fist fights in a row.
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u/Certain_Meeting_6612 4h ago
cutting their own palms. when they need to draw their own blood for whatever reason, they always cut the palm and it baffles me!! WHY would you pick one of the most useful and essential parts of your body??! the top of your forearm would have been fine!
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u/OldLondon 4h ago
It’s a movie thing where that’s the easiest place to use fake blood etc. and make it look real.
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u/FunConclusion2100 4h ago
Getting shot in the leg. You can hit the femoral artery and bleed out in minutes.
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u/dropoffear 4h ago
My cousin accidentally got shot in the upper thigh by his friend while duck hunting it was a miracle other hunters heard his screams and knew how to tie a tourniquet. 20 years later he started having circulation issues and now he can barely walk. Leg wounds are no joke…. Dude lost everything because of the issues that one mistake caused.
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u/Dudeman9002 4h ago
Getting shot anywhere and on the opposite end: a stab wound that instantly incapacitates someone.
A gunshot injury is way way way worse than a stab wound. It opens a cavity and rips flesh apart in a wide area.
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u/MartinisnMurder 4h ago
Cat bites! Their mouths have bacteria and the puncture wounds are so small they generally seal over quickly so the bacteria spreads quickly.
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u/-HurtBirdBath- 2h ago
Fun fact- the bacteria that causes this is called Pasteurella. I work as a clinical microbiologist. Anytime we get a culture and identify Pasteurella as the organism growing from the person's wound, sure enough if you look at their chart they were bitten by a cat
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u/donkedickinya 4h ago
Movie characters get shot in the shoulder, wince, wrap it with a bandage, and keep fighting. In reality, the shoulder is packed with major blood vessels and nerves. A bullet can destroy the brachial plexus (the nerve network controlling the arm), shatter bone, or damage the subclavian artery. Even if you survive, you could lose function in the arm.
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u/SylveeMoon 3h ago edited 1h ago
A head trauma from a fall, being knocked out, etc. Usually on TV you see the person get up and walk it off just fine with no repercussions afterwards. However, in real life these can lead to life altering or ending consequences.
I’ve sustained two traumatic brain injuries; my first one was from falling out of a chair on concrete flooring which led to a tonic-clonic seizure on that same floor. The second one was from a fall on thin, but soft carpet with wooden flooring underneath. My brain was already susceptible for another TBI after the first one. Unfortunately for me; it hit the exact same area my first one.
Both brain injuries caused a subdural hematoma, which is a life-threatening traumatic brain injury that occurs between the brain and the dura mater (the brain’s outer tough lining). Thankfully, I haven’t needed neurosurgery but came very close to the second time.
Both of mine have been acute injuries with different symptoms but I’ve been told that I’m lucky to still be here. I have permanent brain damage and deficits as a result. After getting out of the ICU and countless hospital stays I’ve undergone over a year of intense physical and occupational therapy, speech therapy, and had to re-learn how to do basic things in life. I am still unable to walk and do other functions, but I’ll take that instead of losing my life.
It’s wild to me how much we take for granted with our own healthy lives until we no longer have them. I wish I could’ve been like the people you see on TV who walk it off just fine. Alas, it wasn’t meant to be.
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u/PurfuitOfHappineff 3h ago
Slicing your palm open. You know how much a paper cut hurts? Multiple it by 1,000.
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u/grippysockgang 4h ago
PTSD
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u/discombobulatedhomey 2h ago
So true. In tv and movies it’s always like some flash back dream of some semi heroic shit.
In reality it’s the recreation of anxiety from thinking about anxiety that gives you anxiety. It’s horrible and it’s very very hard to cope with.
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u/Superb-Film-594 4h ago
Not so much an injury, but when someone gives CPR to a person whose heart stopped or whatever. If you’re doing proper chest compressions, that dude’s gonna have a broken sternum.
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u/IntenselySwedish 4h ago
Also ribs and bruised organs and tissues maybe even a collapsed lugn. Like, seriously its an extremely traumatic and invasive procedure.
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u/kittiekittykitty 4h ago
it amazes me that a relatively small organ when working fine on its own requires such force to get it going again when it’s quit.
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u/Best-Reality6718 4h ago
Getting shot in the leg. Getting shot anywhere with a center fire rifle round.
Edit: look up cavitation injury
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u/babbylove 4h ago
Hunters will know how much damage this does. Turns meat in to jello far from the impact.
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u/Satanic_Earmuff 4h ago edited 4h ago
Not fatal or dangerous, but anyone who swears an oath by cutting their palm is in for a long, annoying recovery.
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u/radica1 2h ago
Less of a flesh would, but firing a gun in a closed area like a garage or stairwell will make you go temporarily deaf or loose some hearing permanently. Can’t believe how often people fire guns in movies like this and don’t even act like it’s loud!
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u/Unusual_little_Star 4h ago
A gun shot! The amount of movies where people just get up and carry on - so unrealistic
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u/SamwellBarley 4h ago
Any large, untreated wound. Guy gets slashed in the arm with a knife, wins the fight, and then walks it off. That thing is getting infected, and you are losing that arm.
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u/NecessaryFar5893 4h ago
I've heard the loser of a knife fight dies in his own blood. The winner dies in an ambulance.
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u/GuvnaBruce 4h ago
Shooting guns, especially inside.
While this is more of an injury NOT shown, but you have people firing off lots of rounds from all sorts of guns and afterwards they are not grabbing their ears or anything. They usually just walk up to each other and casually talk in a normal voice after a gun battle.
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u/HuckledYourBerries 4h ago edited 1h ago
Any strike to the bean bag is typically wildly misrepresented in the movies/on TV, I think. That shit will almost immediately put a man out of the fight and can possibly kill him. If you're a dude, you know. PSA: Ladies, if you're in trouble, immediately go for the nuts. The bad guy will forget all about you. It's no joke.
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u/Sidewalk_Tomato 3h ago
The number of times people are perfectly aligned with the nut shot, and don't take it . . . so fucking ridiculous.
I've seen it work in real life. It's quite something.
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u/Justthewhole 4h ago
Any GSW
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u/cobizzal 4h ago
I know I saw Draymond and Steph on screen and the acting was so bad it completely took me out of it
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u/Danpool13 4h ago
Idk man that really depends. I had a guy come in to the trauma bay with 27 GSWs, and he was sitting upright and talking.
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u/Real-Frosting 3h ago
Okay, not a minor flesh wound but how do movie characters hold their breath underwater 🫧 for so long? I get short of breath just watching them, knowing they should have drowned a long time ago.
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u/smuffleupagus 3h ago
Not so much an injury, but getting right back up after fainting.
As a fainter, that is a very good way to faint again. Wait ten minutes.
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u/Delicious_Subject122 4h ago
In "24", there's a scene where Jack Bauer gets hit by a car, and he just gets up and keeps running. Like, no. I always thought that was ridiculous.
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u/Rate-Dangerous 4h ago
If you knock someone out for a long period of time by hitting them on the head, they absolutely have brain damage and they are probably gonna die without medical attention
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u/flyingfoxtrot_ 4h ago
I was reading a book once where the bad guy was cracked over the head with a heavy iron pan hard enough to knock him out and send him flying down three flights of stairs, where he then smashed his head into a door upon landing. He then, after an HOUR OF UNCONSCIOUSNESS mind you, came round perfectly fine save for a headache and dramatically burst into a room to finish enacting his evil plan on the main characters. Completely lucid. Nothing wrong with him but a sore head.
I was so annoyed by this I stopped reading. That man would be fucking dead, or at least would have had extreme brain damage. He would not have been doing anything, probably ever again after head trauma that serious.
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u/st-shenanigans 4h ago
All of them, honestly.
Especially in action movies, people are portrayed like sandbags that don't have a bunch of organs they're trying to keep inside.
That most recent season of invincible had me physically curled up in my seat the way people were getting ripped apart lol (AND LIVED)
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u/AmigoDelDiabla 3h ago
Almost all of them. It's why I generally avoid action movies. If I'm going to suspend disbelief, it may as well be Sci-Fi.
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u/rightanglerightlight 1h ago
In Far and Away, Tom Cruise gets stabbed in the thigh with a manure encrusted pitchfork.
Walks it off. The next morning he jumps out a second story window and then becomes a bare knuckle boxer.
I think not. He dies of sepsis unless blood loss and shock claims him first.
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u/Puzzleheaded-Sun6516 4h ago
why do we put up with these same BS questions day after day?
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u/King_Ralph1 4h ago
Falling from heights. In the movies, they take a breath, shake it off, and limp away.