What Explosions Do to the Body

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What Explosions Do to the Body
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In this video, Justin from the Institute of Human Anatomy discusses 3 of the biggest errors Hollywood makes is showing injuries in film and television.
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Video Timeline
00:00 - 01:08 Intro
01:09 - 02:10 Primary Blast Injuries
02:11 - 03:34 Blast Brain
03:35 - 04:45 Blast Belly
04:46 - 05:52 Real Magic and the Body
05:53 - 06:45 Justin Being Awkward
06:46 - 08:37 Getting Punched
08:38 - 10:50 Joint Problems
10:51 - 12:27 Blast Belly
12:28 - 14:20 It's Just a Flesh Wound!
14:21 - 14:47 Just Google It
14:48 - 15:24 Justin and Geoffrey
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[@theanatomylab]

Let us know other medical things film and television get wrong!!

[@DarlingDaintyfoot]

Bruises. When characters get into a fight or car crash, etc. they may get a little scratch or two but they never seem to get any bruising. Definitely not some of the massive bruises I would expect from some of the impacts they suffer.

[@DarlingDaintyfoot]

Also, they seem to not suffer much pain from their injuries.... They'll break a couple ribs & be kicking butt the next day...

[@kayybee395]

I just commented on the seizure video, but this was just uploaded.. my family suffers from Huntington’s Disease… would you be able to do a video that goes in depth about how the disease affects the brain and body? Please for my sanity..

[@michimelody4036]

Let's see, I've yelled at the tv over eds, pots, dysautonomia, dislocations, people landing when falling from high heights, s****** shots of bodies not being anywhere near accurate (which I mean probably for the best) but when they hang someone the thumbs SHOULD TURN IN, proper use of protective gear in morgues, proper use of protective gear in labs, proper use of protective gear at crime scenes, gun safety (not medical but still important anyway), medical terms being misused/misapplied, medication being demonized (it happened once), BPD being thought of ALWAYS as a serial killer/negative trait, DID being misrepresented,..... I'm going to stop now 😂.

[@haroldcruz8550]

Thank you for ruining our movie experience 😁

[@RangerOfTheOrder]

It's amazing how fragile yet simultaneously resilient the human body is.

[@loezha6794]

I’m so high and I’m sonscared that my body eill randomly shut down and die ny heart is beating soo fast

[@laurioho2041]

@@loezha6794 bro u good

[@jamesbinns8528]

Amen. I've said the same thing many times!

[@EternalShadow1667]

@@loezha6794 woah, chill out buddy. Two days on I hope you have a clear head.

[@SushiArmageddon]

@@loezha6794 did you survive?

[@DarlingDaintyfoot]

Bruises. Characters get into car crashes, fights, etc. & may get a scratch or two but seem to never get bruises. Certainly not the massive bruises I would expect from some of the impacts I have seem them suffer. They also seem to not suffer any pain from their injuries. I'll see a character have broken ribs & be kicking butt the next day....

[@xicocunha4160]

Yeah they just take some painkillers and everything is fine, it doesn't even hurt.

[@Nylak-Otter]

Right? I have a physically demanding job, and I'm constantly bruised. When I was in the hospital for an unrelated illness I was asked if I was safe at home, because I looked like a badly abused housewife because of the various bad welts that had all sorts of different ages. It's also not uncommon for me to have stitches in visible areas (like one time I got my cheek-to-chin ripped open through my mouth, and work wouldn't let me talk to customers for a few weeks). And I'm a civilian. 🤨

[@timothyb.4928]

Iv been threw a windshield and flew of a motorcycle going 70. Somehow iv gotten more bruises from a night on molly.

[@misseselise3864]

i got into a head on wreck w both of us going 55mph and the only bruising i had was from surgery to repair broken bones, little bruises on my stomach from blood thinner shots, and a massive bruise under my chin (idk what it was caused by cause i did break my jaw, but the break was in the spot where your lower & upper jaw connect so i don’t think that’s what caused it)

[@andreaberryman5354]

🤣👏 Nice-yes. I actually HAVE seen Hollywood bruising, but somehow it is mysteriously limited to the face..🤔🤣

[@ram_bam]

One of my pet peeves in movies is when a gunshot wound to the gut is just shrugged off as a minor inconvenience. There would be massive organ damage and internal bleeding form a bullet wound to the gut.

[@antibull4869]

Adrenaline is a hell of a drug. PCP is a “heller” of a drug 😂.

[@mrpineapple3942]

@@antibull4869 lol

[@NickC_222]

Not to mention getting gut-shot is supposed to be one of the most intractibly painful injuries of its sort. That and being shot in the kneecap, but you rarely see that in movies unless it's a torture scene or something.

[@NickC_222]

@Anti Bull PCP, or phencyclidine, is similar to ketamine in both effects and psychopharmacology. They're both chemicals from a class of drug called arylcyclohexylamines, a class of _anesthetics_ . The idea that people go into some "unstoppable rage" is propaganda designed to demonize another drug that gained popularity in inner-city areas. The "wild maniac" myth is nonsense based largely in racism.

[@mybabyali3159]

right ! it’s like the worst place to get shot at

[@sandradolan8776]

As a nurse, I’m always surprised that the bed rails are down, minimal facial injuries and they always look terrific. I’ve seen many icu’s with terrible traumatic wounds, ie, burns, TBI, not to mention 13 infusions in one elderly 85 yr old.

[@TrackedHiker]

I know you covered punching, but going beyond that to “gently” clubbing people in the head to “knock them out.” In movies, the victims are reliably unconscious for however long the script calls for, then wake up fully functional with no lasting damage. Every single aspect of that is completely wrong. You can give someone a lethal blow and that person never be “knocked out” and not lose consciousness until close to death. And conversely, even a seemingly “mild” blow can kill nearly instantly, with the person never rising again. Movies literally teach it’s okay to hit people, precisely because the victims are never portrayed realistically.

[@deltab9768]

Part of this is that there’s a bunch of different outcomes. That includes what they show in the movies, what you’re talking about, and also cases where it leaves a bruise but no noticeable permanent damage. I remember one person calling it an “anesthesia kick” when some hero KO’s people instantly and without any permanent damage, every single time.

[@myplane150]

My favorite is when a sleeper hold knocks out a bad guy for hours.

[@scottk6659]

@@myplane150 its called brain damage or coma

[@caelcdye9575]

that reminds me can you kill people in boxing matches? They hit each other in the head pretty hard. I am surprised it goes to knock out but what happens if the opponent just dies if that sort of thing happens.

[@spaceranger3728]

Yes. It was common in the old detective movies for the hero to get "conked out" when the bad buy blindsided him with a blow to the back of the head using his .38 snub-nose as a bludgeon. It was always a .38 snub-nose. Then when he gets back into the action in the next scene, he just gets up and moves effortlessly, shooting straight and out martial-arting the bad guy. Then he gets the girl in the end!

[@noelleumina1181]

I'm writing an action novel and one of the characters is a doctor. While writing some of his parts, or sections that involve him treating patients, I realized that I know surprisingly little about the human body so I came to this channel, and I'm really happy I did! Not only can things be a bit more accurate, bt I know so much more than I ever would've! Keep up the good work IHA!

[@daniaawni5180]

I wish you’d come back here and update us when your novel is published! I’d love to read it , good luck!

[@lkctom2546]

@@daniaawni5180 yess me too!

[@maryqueentelen8458]

Please update us someday!

[@prapanthebachelorette6803]

Wish you the best

[@dianelipson5420]

And please do the opposite of everything on House.

[@lokitmg4123]

I would love to see how characters in action movies survive car crashes with little to no injuries. Horrific car crashes that should mean death or serious injury yet seem to only give the characters a few minor bruises and scratches.

[@chrisnote2263]

I can explain that easily: because the director says so

[@dreyhawk]

My older sister fell asleep at the wheel and crashed into a tree. People were afraid to approach thinking they'd find a messed up body but were all surprised when she climbed out and walked around. She said people kept asking her how she did that because her car was totaled. I don't think it's common but it is possible.

[@ahabsbane]

I've been in two horrific head on collisions one of which basically set the engine in my lap, woke up a bit stiff the next day, but was otherwise fine. Safety features in cars such as Air bags, seatbelts and crumple zones really do work.

[@lokitmg4123]

@@ahabsbane Good lord they work miracles then

[@georgemorley1029]

Dislocations or lack of dislocations bug me too, especially since I yanked my arm out of my shoulder socket after about four months of training in the navy. Eighteen years later, I’m still in the navy and my arm will just decide “nah, not today” and just fall out whenever it wants thanks to a torn supraspinitus muscle. That was just from being hit by a yacht and having to grab the bowsprit at an awkward angle and all my weight going onto my shoulder joint. I’d also say, when movies get injuries right, we ought to single them out for praise. I immediately think of Michael Corleone’s swollen face and broken jaw in the godfather. That is still visible on his face months later in the movie, which is likely how someone’s face would really look.

[@jamesbinns8528]

Think of Jack Nicholson in China Town with his broken nose! I'm 66 years old. Many of the injuries and work strains from my youth, are with me yet.

[@deionamariemuhammad628]

Yes! Dislocated my ankle bone and two people dislocated a bone or broke their foot and one came back without a limp and I was like "you healed quickly 🤨🧐" (thinking "she faked it.")

[@pattichambers7100]

I worked in the OR as a scrub nurse for 16 years. Talk about daily anatomy lessons! Loved it! That's why I love your show. I too, shake my head at the absurdity of TV & movie. I can't tell you the number of times we fixed fractured metacarpals from bar room brawls, orbital & maxillary fractures, knife wounds, bullet wounds, etc. There is no such thing as a flesh wound. And every time a punch is thrown, I know in real life, that person's hand is fractured and the other person's face is severely injured. You don't keep fighting.

[@sirena7116]

Nope to the fleshwound. Equal and opposite reaction is a real thing. I see people getting punched and I think, yeh, you likely just broke every bone in your hand.

[@ivr2132]

The worst thing about the movies is that it makes people think that they can take a punch or punch someone easily, and that the consequences are minimal. A strong punch in the right place can leave another person in a terribly serious condition, I wish people knew that

[@wmdkitty]

"You don't keep fighting." Eh... IDK, adrenaline can make you do some funny things, like _not feel_ an injury.

[@benjamin3615]

There's a reason boxers wrap their hands lol

[@silvussol8966]

Bas Ruten literally ruptured another fighter’s liver with a punch. Then during a KZbin video he ruptured a fake spleen in a dummy as an example, with a single punch.

[@urbannanni5864]

I'm a retired paramedic turned ER nurse. I can't watch any TV show or movie with any medical theme. I've been grounded for life from watching them by my husband, who has grown quite tired of my constant critique and occasional screaming.

[@urbannanni5864]

Except for M*A*S*H*. In nursing school, we were actually required to watch certain episodes. The one with the Wangensteen 3-bottle gravity suction system for sucking chest wounds in an extreme situation.

[@MiaMichele9696]

@UrbanNanni...Same 🙋‍♀️ I'm a Critical Care RN...I'm not allowed to watch any medical themed TV shows or movies...unless I watch them alone 😞 😔 😞

[@LeonardRoberts]

Retired paramedic and nurse, I have ruined all medical TV shows for my family, my kids now adults would often beat me noticing irregularities. Mechanism of injury and the "injury" rarely are accurate. When my kids were younger, we used to watch surgeries and true medical documentaries on I believe was TLC or Discovery Channel often during supper time so my kids have strong stomachs.

[@intimpulliber7376]

Thats on you. No movie or tv show is obligated to be so realistic even real life doctors, lawyers, soldiers etc cant find any fault in it. You guys really dont understand the concept of escapism

[@urbannanni5864]

@@intimpulliber7376 it's not escapism if it's your job. It would be like an accountant watching an actor who doesn't know anything, running a calculator for an hour, making mistakes. I can't escape if I go see a show about what I'm escaping. If you've ever wrestled the Angel of Death day in, day out, 12 hours at a shot, you don't want to watch someone do it wrong.

[@Duck_Tuck]

As a film student, this is a really cool video! It’s not only interesting in terms of looking for inaccuracies, but something to consider in making films more realistic and for military/war films to highlight the real physical damage/ long term effects veterans suffer through. Great video, keep it up! With love from Aus x

[@strider8933]

Just found this and am amazed NO ONE else seems to share this view. I got "blown up" many years ago and DO NOT compare my injuries to many of the same misfortune. I had an RPG anti-tank round go off nearly under my feet against a 12 inch curb(running like my life depended on it!). As you describe them( not the terms then),my injuries, Blast eyes, ruptured eardrums, pneumothorax, minor blast belly, compartment syndrome requiring fasciotomies on the lower extremities , and a TBI. All are considered "over pressure" injuries now, Very little shrapnel other than concrete fragments, of which all were debrided during fasciotomy. I did have a small piece of copper work its way out of my forearm nearly 30 years later. I consider myself the luckiest guy on earth. Thank you for this!

[@ATruckCampbell]

If it was an RPG rocket, there is a good chance that copper could have been from the rocket itself. I hope you made it a necklace or something.

[@strider8933]

@@ATruckCampbell Yes. It was likely from the shape charge casing. Nah, had the Doctor toss it. Really small, wire like shard. Almost like from a wire wheel but copper.

[@ATruckCampbell]

@@strider8933 I collect modern body armor and am interested in it. If you do not mind me asking, what armor where you wearing and how much did it help you in that situation?

[@strider8933]

@@ATruckCampbell Actually, it was '83 and I had on an old Vietnam era Flak jacket. Other than some minor scorching, not a scratch. Again, mostly all blast injury.

[@mwilliamson3989]

You are a miracle. I'm grateful for your service and for your survival. 🤗

[@ChrisRaynorMD]

Once my channel is a bit bigger, I would love to collaborate with you guys on a video on this topic. Many of my videos are about this very topic. We are exceptionally fragile, and they always seem to ignore this in the movies. Solid video. Thanks for bringing anatomic realism to these the movies we love to watch.

[@B3gonias]

Would LOVE to see this collab! You’re phenomenal!

[@tominieminen66]

Once your channel is bigger? What are the reasons you want to wait until then? Not saying there's not any but I'm curious to hear your reasoning

[@debbiechan8657]

Why collab later when you can collab now? :D

[@shietnewfeature.delethethis]

You dont need a bigger channel dude, your content kicks ass and a collab would be awesome!

[@ChrisRaynorMD]

@@tominieminen66 Simply because they are big and I am small. I just want to be able to offer value to their channel.

[@terrysteward6765]

I was shot in the femoral artery, femoral vein, profundus femoral artery and seven other places, main below the waist. This was with an AK 47. I had a four compartment fasciotomy on my lower right leg. It took 10 years to mostly recover. Still have complications from the injuries. Had six damaged nerves from the attack. And, later developed Charcot in both ankles. Very painful!

[@kyriethika]

My first thought (I was a medic) is that it's a miracle that you survived!

[@leviismyoppa967]

I hope you are well Sir/Ma'am.

[@noobychoco454]

im not any medic or some kind of thing but i surely know that one thing: you are a lucky person to survive that (1 bullet is more than enough to kill someone)

[@TheOnlyLegitimateZoigle]

Amazing that you survived that. You must be tough! And whoever was working on you must have been very good.

[@bulllea]

my God ! it was a miracle that you survived !

[@cliftonwhittaker260]

You just covered most of my pet peeves with action movies. Especially old Westerns. Matt get a flesh wound in the heart. Doc probes the bullet and pulls it out with forceps the size of nut crackers. It goes clank into a porcelain pan. Doc wraps a rag around him and Matt gets on his horse to continue chasing the bad man. Tough men for sure. :))

[@LMH6379]

My peeve, too! I gave up on most movies years ago after watching these 'super-hero' jerks! Anyway, got a good laugh from the way you described 'em😆😅🤣😂

[@MrsD1980]

Well done on the whole video. You're so right about the people holding people with their arms. I remember a story of a very fit strong cop who grabbed the arm of an attempted suicide jumper. He only had to hold him a short while before others helped in pulling the man up, but in that short time oh my, he ripped a bicep, tore tendons, something about dislocated shoulder, broken wrist etc. He was in physical therapy a long time just to get function again.

[@andrewr303]

I hate when people get shot in the arm or shoulder. They moan for five seconds then put a bandage on it and suddenly have no pain at all and full function of their arm. It's miraculous

[@alannabaker8293]

ITS LIKE TV is entertainment and notnreal life. Because they are actors.. What's weird is people thing TV is real..

[@captainahab5522]

I looked at the blood and nerve vessels in the shoulder and there are major blood vessels in the exact place people get shot in movies

[@RaptorTroll360]

To be honest I've seen people get some pretty severe injuries, and function more what should be possible, way after any adrenaline/shock should have worn off, although days later they're quite a bit more stiff and reserved in their movements after getting pached up at the ER, and told how bad things might get if they rip the stitches. While at the same time there are alleged adults who screech as if they're being burned alive over some moderate bruising, that is in no way life threatening.

[@stuartcjwebb7960]

I am a makeup effects artist in the UK and this subject has come up in the community on NUMEROUS occasions. We are all striving to balance between realistic and what the script and/or the director wants. I can assure you that we all do research in to every sort of injury, trauma and anatomy. We try our best, we really do. But so often we are fighting a losing battle.

[@elevenbucks5682]

Directors often do things that you can see are not possible but they say it "won't read" and its about putting asses in seats.

[@ChrisRaynorMD]

That is great insight Stuart!

[@jld593]

"it's a losing battle"...but one with limited bruises

[@Ailasher]

After all, your overall job is to literally deceive people. You don't show people reality, you pass off lies, a magical world, la la land, you name it, for reality. Of course, it's bad that people are starting to confuse reality with your fantasy, like millions of readers of 19th-century novelists who praised heroic joy of wars and conquests before the battlefields of Verdun, Somme, Passchendaele or Osovets. But that's what people are paying you for, and reality always win in the end. So there's not much harm, right? Right?

[@afoster1621]

Surely this needs to be consciously thought about by director and the type of message they want to come across Its like the hearts and minds mantra - it has to come from the top level of understanding. They may just want to make a "popcorn" flick in some cases, if thats the case then fair enough you can't expect to change that in makeup. No make up is going to change the facts of what you are working with, with the greatest respect. You could have the best make up in the world but with the logic of the film going against medical knowledge as per the video. If you are make up and doing your very best of that, then its really the directors fault to address inaccuracy right ?

[@Max_Ufc]

Can we just appreciate what Justin is doing for us! Thank you for educating everyone with the human anatomy for me its so interesting!

[@jmoney7289]

I never knew you were a marine, I just started watching so I don't know you two's names yet but glad to know you're a certified bad ass and don't even show it just pure joy of knowing your peers inside and out

[@SolielHime]

There are a few inaccuracies that really bug me. The first one is the idea that if you survive a gunshot, you will automatically recover completely. There are so many patients with GSWs that will live with permanent disability or die months later due to complications from the initial injury. There’s also SO MANY respiratory inaccuracies!

[@eliasbram3710]

Medical knowledge in action movies is like historical accuracy in most medieval movies

[@onceuponarevenant9409]

Your comment should have more likes

[@sdecavit]

I’m that person watching movies set in the Middle Ages saying, “ That’s not right!” 😂

[@onceuponarevenant9409]

@@sdecavit imagine swords slicing through armor like butter, I'll call it the "anime weeb slash"

[@philippfuchs4348]

or physics in space movies

[@wcurtin1962]

Or in westerns.

[@thesausage351]

I’ve heard ‘ruptured spleen’ a lot in tv and movies and it’s almost treated like it’s a ‘walk it off’ kind of deal. I never really knew what the spleen did, and I think they rely on most people being the same as that and just using it as a go to injury.

[@UlfhedinnNorsk]

Spinal injuries (mostly due to IEDs while in Infantry Carrier Vehicles) are huge as well.

[@quesadillasinqueso5602]

Burns, people in movies act like “if it just hurts I can keep”; when burns are prety incapacitating mostly by the pain they cause.

[@peterf.229]

Or the shock to the body they cause

[@richardthrust1126]

If the burn destroys the free nerve endings in the dermis that sense pain, then you can't feel much pain. If you are willing to accept a little scarring, you can test it by applying a white hot needle to your skin. It will hurt a little, but not as much as trauma that does not destroy the FNE's. Once on two consecutive days on a farm I was burned and then had a laceration which got petrol in it. Petrol in an open wound is 100 times more painful than the dull pain of a burn because of the massive activation of live FNE's vs lots of dead FNE's with a burn.

[@Jukinj94]

Some people are built different. People have bellyfloped onto concrete from 3 stories and just got up and walked away before.

[@xponen]

@@Jukinj94 people are the same except skin colour.

[@BirdyDive-Games]

I agree that there still needs to be a "fun" factor that suspends our disbelief. However a movie that shows a character slowly breaking down from all of the injuries he acquires would be fascinating.

[@oh-man.]

It would be a breath of fresh air -- not for the despairing character with a ruptured respiratory tract, that is.

[@mysteryman3054]

That would be troubling.

[@loganthesaint]

Dead pool surprisingly does this really well with his suit.

[@seekhimwithallyourheartand3358]

Repent to Jesus Christ ““For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.” ‭‭Isaiah‬ ‭55:8-9‬ ‭NIV‬‬ Jh

[@tavarix5893]

I thought this comment section would be free from 2hu fandom I was wrong

[@travist2844]

This was a very informative video. I was injured by a vbied in Iraq 2004. I have suffered from some of the exact injuries you mention above. A lot of these injuries you mentioned are life long. To keep it short I sustained shrapnel injuries, intestinal injuries and a tbi. Most of my issues have become the norm but the tbi doesn't go away. I lost vision in my right eye, suffer from seizures now, tremors and hearing loss. I didn't fully understand the effects of on the body other than my personal experience. Just felt like you were so spot on that I would share this with you. Take care.

[@hardyzme]

Are you fully blind in your right eye?

[@maxr.mamint8580]

My thoughts are with you, my brother.

[@Monothefox]

Let's not forget how easy it is to damage one's hearing from a blast. Oh, and the delayed brain injuries - even a simple concussion can cause new problems for weeks after the initial trauma.

[@The_Evanger]

The injury that bugs me when I see it is when people get impaled through the abdomen and then just pull the rebar/knife/sword or whatever out as if internal bleeding and serious infections from ruptured organs isn't a thing

[@bendy514]

And it's usually something that could kill them if they aren't treated fast enough

[@hhhhh1181]

hell the shock too could kill you just instantly

[@silvussol8966]

I know, why do they ALWAYS pull it out? That is the worst thing to do. It’s like they are trying to die.

[@thebaumfaeller1477]

The scene that comes to mind for me is the plane crash in world war z where brad pitt is impled by the aluminium strud and afterwards is still able to hobble to safety without just bleeding out and starts running around the next day.

[@brianhoeckelmann1304]

@@hhhhh1181 king Kong Brody bled to death after being stabbed in the stomach in Portarico. He laid on the gurney for 3 hours . Should never have died from the wound .but he was not walking around like nothing happened. The pain was ungodly.

[@Kaiji700M]

I'm not of any medical background but I have punched through glass once. The amount of bleeding I have had in my hand was so insane. Since then, it started bugging me each time I see a character in a movie punching glass or a mirror and walking away as if it was nothing with the bleeding stopping on it's own

[@bendy514]

My cousin, 19 at the time, also punched through glass. We had to rush him to ER and he wasn't able to use his hand properly for about a week. The scar from that is still a little visible 2 years after

[@hhhhh1181]

i was really lucky, cuz once i hit a glass to with my palm, hand open and didn't bleed, even a bit, save for some tiny cut here and there

[@cocotte9104]

Not only that but glass is extremely dangerous since you can have very tiny glass particles stuck into your body, or even your blood stream, so it almost always requires big surgery.

[@mcrchickenluvr]

The reason you bled so much is because the hand is one of the most vascular parts of the body. If I’m not mistaken, it’s the second most vascular area next to the head.

[@squalli1297]

The glass you've seen broken over heads, in hands, people thrown/falling through glass pane windows, is made of sugar that looks like glass in movies. It's brittle & doesn't leave shards stuck in the actors. They add sound effects for realism. Real broken glass hurts & can be deadly.

[@Rubiastraify]

Thank you for your candid explanation and your enthusiasm for this subject. I too, have wondered about blast effects - one only has to look up a few videos to see the shock wave that results from an explosion. I think Hollywood could be a bit more realistic without sacrificing the story line. Thanks to those who donated their bodies to science, so that we can witness the inner workings of our miraculous bodies. Thanks also to all of our veterans who have endured such injuries. You are not forgotten. Some of us can only imagine what you've witnessed, but are empathetic nonetheless. *Semper Fi!*

[@lokilokasenna4475]

Mate, I just found your channel. This is awesome, thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and your passion with us. Im not in the medical sector nor in the military but the function of our body and what happens if you get wounded is still fascinating. When I was 14 my appendix disrupted and this pain I'll never forget, this expierence kept me also very suspicios about what is shown in the movies as "flesh wound". Keep up your great work and thank you very much.

[@Marinealver]

Repeat on the radio means FIRE AGAIN! (For those that don't know) One thing I like on Three Kings is how they explain how a single bullet messes up a body as most people think the only "kill shot" is a headshot. Hitting the body is potentially fatal as any other part.

[@shaider1982]

Yup, I watched that on Task and Purpose. Another reason why you say “Say again” when you want the message to be repeated to you.

[@hedgeearthridge6807]

The crazy thing is too, headshots don't guarantee death whatsoever. You can get shot in certain parts of the brain and live and be mostly ok, like the Red Baron did. (Goes without saying, you need IMMEDIATE medical attention and surgery to survive). Too so little of the head is actually the brain. But basically, everybody in every field is trained to NOT shoot for the head, it's too small and mobile of a target, and when you miss that bullet is going to travel a long distance. You just shoot center mass, in the torso, and that's it. In situations where hitting bystanders is a bad threat, shooting for the pelvis will make the missed bullets more likely to hit the ground, instead of someone else.

[@567Katii]

Ooh I never knew what it meant!

[@lir3379]

We are in the blasting industry. Have tried to explain blast effects on the body for years. Thank you Hollywood for making Safety Meetings damn near impossible. Thanks to you guys for making it real.

[@peterf.229]

Mythbusters was good at showing stuff , poor Buster 🤣

[@ruandahaasbroek1950]

Thanks for this information. Here in South Africa, in the town Boksburg, there was a gas tanker that go stuck underneath a bridge, which caused a gas leak, and exploded about half an hour later, just a day before Christmas 2022. Unfortunately there were bystanders that didn't get away in time. The massive injuries it caused is unbelievable. I saw videos that were circulated that people took on their phones after the explosion. The people who got injured, were laying and crawling around in excruciating pain, some of them's arms and legs were ripped off, skin peeling off from their bodies, their clothes were melted into their bodies. It's horrific. It was like a scene in a horror movie. Altogether 36 people died so far, some lived for a week afterwards, but their injuries were to severe, even with the best medical treatment they couldn't survive😭

[@veyarain82]

Smashing two hard things together being a bad idea is exactly why it’s drilled into our heads in martial arts that you don’t ever ram your knuckles into someone’s skull, or anything else hard. Bad. Idea. Don’t do it. Hard to soft. Always hard to soft. The point is to end the fight, not to break everyone involved, least of all yourself. Great video.

[@roccit]

I believe you missed one :) My biggest gripe is when people get cracked in the head with a rifle butt (or pistol) and it knocks them out. Sometimes it’s done just so they can be quietly transported somewhere else. It’s crazy, they’ll be out for 30 minutes. Must be some major noggin trauma going on. Not to mention the knot you’d have on your head from the impact.

[@beccapeterson3744]

Yes! I've always wondered what or why this would cause instant and long time unconsciousness.

[@vincentmarcellino7183]

Also the fact that you're more likely to not wake up from that to begin with. Being swiftly smacked really hard in the forehead by a wooden or metal gun butt is gonna do major brain damage, give whiplash or even snap your neck. Like getting hit in the face with a baseball bat. It's not something a person would actually walk away from so easily

[@wcurtin1962]

They did a video on that very subject!

[@LOFIGSD]

Used to see knockouts regularly at Thai Boxing, tbh, sometimes, people wake up and dont even know they were sparked, want to keep fighting, have to be told they have been out 5 minutes and the fight is over, most rarely out longer than a few minutes, if someone is knocked out for hours, then they are in hospital and going to be concussed, not right for days, often longer.

[@jdkim1019]

Beat me to it, but yeah. I learned in a brain anatomy class I took that in best case scenarios, acute trauma to the head can leave someone unconscious for a few seconds to a minute or two, but anything longer than that and you're not waking up with just a lump and a headache, assuming you wake up at all.

[@heliosdelsol]

I'm a paramedic and have 17 years under my belt and I just wanted to comment on the "flesh wound" thing. While flesh wound certainly isn't a medical term, in a layman's sense it's perfectly acceptable to use as description of a wound that does not involve any vital organs, bones, or major blood vessels.

[@ubahfly5409]

Accept in film the concept of "flesh wound" means it's totally safe to shoot someone someplace like in the thigh where, as we all know, there are no major arteries....

[@paulisaaksohn5664]

@@ubahfly5409 Have you heard of a femoral artery yet?

[@ubahfly5409]

@@paulisaaksohn5664 Have you heard of sarcasm yet?

[@flxmkr]

Ubahfly ...If they even manage to shoot them. They could all be standing three feet away, emptying all their guns in a heavy lead storm, and nobody gets shot. Or they hide behind a piece of cardboard that protects them from assault rifles. And how do they manage to shoot a person without harming the person standing directly behind them? Or shoot up a vehicle beyond recognition, but everyone inside walks away unscathed?

[@briangreen8033]

I've been stabbed in my tricep, a defensive wound, and I was told I was lucky by the doctor whom stitched me up. Now, there was not much pain, just a sharp pinch, followed by a bit of a burning sensation, and hardly any blood. Could you maybe explain to me why this was the case? I genuinely would like to know. I enjoyed your video and look forward to learning more from your channel. Take care and God bless. ✝️

[@venusflytrap2622]

The Timestamp at 13:20 is probably your answer to your question. No idea how big the stabbing object was or in what direction the stab went but my first guess would´ve been that you had luck in terms of no nerves or veins were struck.

[@mybabyali3159]

probably missed a major artery

[@briangreen8033]

@@venusflytrap2622 Roughly two inch width, fairly thick, and I felt it hit the bone. I agree, that's what I thought, too. But I was confused as to the lack of blood. I mean, it was but one short line. I appreciate the feedback. I will check out the timestamp. Take care and God bless. ✝️ Edit: The knife entered at just beneath the horseshoe and went upwards into the bone.

[@briangreen8033]

@@mybabyali3159 Yes, it definitely did. I'm grateful for that. I don't like the idea of blood transfusions. Take care and God bless. ✝️

[@Onk3lM0]

Nurse here! You take the words right out of my heart. In the video you talk about the spleen rupturing and the victim bleeding out. This can also happen with much more "basic" stuff like having a car accident. Say you are distracted, see the car in front of you to late and slam the breaks but still crash into the other car at like 30-50 km/h. Your airbag will probably go off and your seatbelt will hold you in place. And the pressure from the seatbelt can actually cause internal trauma! If memory serves me correctly, the spleen is encapsulated and this capsule might be damaged from the accident and break later, causing internal bleeding. That's the reason why you should ALWAYS go to a doctor or hospital after a car crash, even if you didn't break anything etc. Here in Germany we'll check your abdominal region (maybe CT or MRT) and we are required to have the patient stay at least 24h because of the risk of a damaged spleen rupturing. If the patient is fine after 24h and no injuries etc. were found the patient can go home.

[@567Katii]

I wish that was the case in the UK. I went to my GP after mine and all she checked for was whiplash and gave me diazepam

[@robinwinsor4392]

Great video! My pet peeve is the bar fight scene where chairs are smashed over heads, punches smash into jaws etc. Every one of those actions means a severe injury but by having everyone shake it off, get back up and have another beer they seriously mislead people in real life. After a few beers many young men take a swing at another person without realizing that means surgery and life long pain.

[@averyshaw2142]

And that overzealousness can lead to a manslaughter or even 3rd degree murder

[@kinkykonky]

one thing always annoys me is when a person is heavily injured and bleeding and about to die...is for how long they remain consious and just die instead of passing out first and then be over. having that dramatic last moments and last words makes for a cinematic view but its far from what i've experienced as a nurse when people are on their last minutes

[@alannabaker8293]

I guess because TV is not real...

[@prezidenttrump5171]

If people wanted realistic depictions of death in Movies, they'd just watch snuff films. Don't think that just because the general public doesn't see the real thing every single day, that they are somehow oblivious to the obvious movie trop of speaking way too much before dying.

[@peterf.229]

Snuff films are really fake too. Just sayin

[@prezidenttrump5171]

@@peterf.229 Not the one my father made in the late 80's. Those were real deaths. Might want to think about how screwed up real life is, before running to the internet and convincing yourself that everything is fake.

[@SJR_Media_Group]

Thank you for shining light on real injuries that Hollywood always misses. I don't know very many people who walked away uninjured after a powerful blast close by. I have seen demos with gel blocks to simulate human tissues. There are actually 2 things that happen in milliseconds... initial blast over pressure traveling faster than the speed of sound. Air is blasted away, causing a partial vacuum. There is the concussion when air rushes back toward explosion, almost like an explosion in reverse. Both can kill, maim cause traumatic injuries. Some injuries are hard to diagnose, and might not appear for hours, or even days. You know you are having a bad day when you pray for PTSD instead of blast brain, lung, etc.

[@steveblog1]

Such an interesting video, thank you. A martial artist once told me he could never understand why anyone would punch another person in the face. Bone on bone is going to hurt you, as well as the person you're punching. Palms or heels of the hand were substantially less painful for the person doing the punching. And yeah, I really, really, really hate that walking away from an explosion shot. It irritates the hell out of me lol

[@richardcutler6254]

From what I've seen, the most common injuries incurred during action films are the classic gunshot wounds, followed with an equal amount of either knife / slashing injuries or blunt trauma Force like being hit with pipes and other types of hand weapons or hand tools. I think about the first time I ever saw a movie get it right was in the recent film Nobody. He took a beating, and it showed.

[@colatf2]

Yeah, I think that if someone gets shot in newer movies, they are either dead, down for the count, or running on fumes

[@Densenugs]

This video made Nobody come to mind for me! That movie was so good

[@aljoschalong625]

Nice that you talked about the injuries from fist fights. This already bothered me as a child when I watched cowboy movies; guy hitting each other with full force in the face, or even with a club, and they just get up as if nothing happened. Even as a child I knew this can't be possible. And even then I thought this is dangerous to show - there is much talk about video games producing violence. But there it's obviously unreal. But the fist fights you see seem real and kids might get the impression it's not a big deal.

[@saphiralucifera2366]

yes, dragonball z gave me an unrealistic expectation for how damaging a fist fight is. Wish my parents would have let me do martial arts so I could really learn instead of just not letting me watch the show which motivated me to try and enact shonen anime on my friends and family. Almost went to juvie back then.

[@jamesbinns8528]

The human body can take a lot of blows and keep on going. Punching someone in the face must allow a little give for the hand, while punching someone in the head can break a hand (experience).

[@therayven3147]

I don't know, some videogames VERY ACCURATELY represent injuries... Red Dead Redemption (RDR2) was one such game... I watched a video of a doctor reacting to injuries in RDR2 and even he was shocked at the realism of the injuries in the game...

[@aljoschalong625]

@The Rayven. I guess you're right. I'm absolutely no game expert. But though there well may be realistically looking games, I'm pretty sure the majority of games are not.

[@therayven3147]

@@aljoschalong625 this is true... videogames at large on average are less than realistic, just movies on the whole are unrealistic, however, some movies DO get injuries correct... But we are not looking at the one or two game/movies that do get it right, we are looking at average numbers on the whole... I see what you are saying...

[@walterwallace4913]

Really appreciate your showing clips of the video contents; the education is amazing.

[@JonDjones1]

Thank you, Doctor(s), for shining light into the dimly lit world of Hollywood. I've been watching this channel for over a year now. In the past, I wanted to be a Medical Examiner but God changed things for me. Now I gathering notes for a book and this video opens doors for me. Thank you again sir I/we love the eye-opening channel.

[@Rahel63]

I've noticed that when they get hurt they just get like a scratch, nothing major like a broken bone and not even a bruise and then next scene they're completely healed.

[@bendy514]

With full makeup on

[@SuperSuperman1976]

I've been punched in the eye so hard, just one hit, it knocked my eye crooked and swelled my eye shut for almost a week. Took almost a month for my eye to straighten out. Yea, it fractured my orbit.

[@sarahtaylor7737]

Did ya deserve it tho?

[@SuperSuperman1976]

@@sarahtaylor7737 I was 14.

[@sarahtaylor7737]

@@SuperSuperman1976 ok, but did ya deserve it tho?!?! If it was an adult, ima say not so much, or was it kid on kid? You steal someone’s boy/girl?

[@SuperSuperman1976]

@@sarahtaylor7737 Regardless of what happened, does anyone at the age of 14 deserve to have their face broken? He tried to wrestle me, I pushed away and hit his nose which caused it to bleed. He decided to knock me off my feet and damn near blinded me. So, you tell me.

[@Minhyasai]

@@sarahtaylor7737 out of pocket question bruh

[@wardrobelion]

Always love y’all’s videos. Thanks.

[@blayzehughes5081]

I just recently found these videos and I love them. I would love to see a video about the affect of car crashes or blunt trauma on the body

[@ed209inCA]

Gunshot wounds for sure. I worked as an EMT in South Central L.A. during the early 90s and saw a lot of gunshot victims. We never put a sling on a patient who just got shot in the upper chest and let him walk away so he could have dinner with a couple of new found friends.

[@peterf.229]

Yeah , chest gun shot wounds can be nasty , trauma life in the er was a great show, was really stuff , surprising how bullets move in the body .

[@ed209inCA]

@@peterf.229 exactly. I saw one person get shot in the shoulder with a small .22lr round. Bullet ricocheted off the shoulder joint and severed the aorta, which killed the victim. Had another (very heavy) person who was alert and talking to us after being shot around the torso seven times with a 9mm. Doesn't matter where the bullet enters, what matters is what gets in its way once it's inside the body.

[@cryptokeeper7925]

I thought the sling and boot out the door was standard procedure for those without insurance...?

[@ed209inCA]

@@cryptokeeper7925 that's only if their homies drop them off in front of the hospital. Like...literally drive up, dump them out of the car, and then speed off.

[@ed209inCA]

@Joe Barone well, as long as you have some drinks to go along with the dinner to numb the pain.

[@cassies.5866]

I used to work in blast injury research. Fascinating stuff.

[@nildavalencia5524]

I enjoy the anatomy aspects as well, it reminds me of anatomy classes as a nurse and ultrasound technician. I learned more every time! I thank you 😊

[@sgt_retiredcharlie4102]

Having Advanced Combat Life Saving training from the military, one of the things that is just a MAJOR PET PEEVE of mine is the BELT as a Tourniquet! OH PLEASE! That doesn't work! Anyway. This is the first video I've found of yours and I absolutely LOVE it! I was astounded that you were using cadavers as examples and I think it's absolutely awesome! I'm hooked; you've got my sub brother (not that you need more, LOL)!

[@JessScreams]

Now i really want to see a medically accurate action movie where they have to be more clever with the writing to find ways the person can fight while theyre constantly breaking bones and pulling muscles haha. It just ends with them in the ICU Edit: I feel like the only it’d work and still be interesting would be if the movie was a self-aware action comedy. Something like the protagonist is the only one who has to actually follow the rules of medicine and physics and all the bad guys still operate under usual action movie rules

[@suzannax]

That would be awesome. Great concept 👌

[@Nikita-zo4gp]

Had the same idea once. But the movie would be boring and short, as my hero would end up in a coma after scene 1 😴

[@AirQuotes]

I'd watch that

[@achaides]

That would be a short movie 😆😆 everyone would be in the ICU within 20 minutes

[@alphabetadotaalphabetadota5671]

Yeah would be funy, but the movie would also be 10 min long 😂

[@titaniumvulpes]

I'm writing a historical fiction novel, the two main characters of which happen to be WWI vets, and this is very insightful. One character I had long decided sustained thorough traumatic brain injury leading to epilepsy, partial blindness, and hearing loss, but I hadn't put a lot of thought into the blast wave injuries sustained by the other, only the shrapnel injuries. Thanks for the reminder that air pressure is just as important as shell bits!

[@erwina4738]

Best of luck in your future best selling novel! Sounds like you have a very interesting story to tell!

[@laurynk4209]

6:00 haha justin being awkward is my favorite segment

[@arri275555]

This is my first watching one of your videos. So glad I found the channel. 🤙🤙

[@robforsyth8254]

I was a 30+year navy vet and every time we were simulated attacked by a sub, I sometimes used to curl into the foetal position and rock from side to side which freaked out my troops in the operations room. A SUT torpedo, mk48 or a 53/65 torpedo is packed with 500lbs of RDX and any of these weapons will send a shock wave through your body at over 27000fps and will instantly liquify your internal organs. The split second afterwards, you will see your femurs appear beside your ears as the ship is s instantly thrown up 30 feet into the air as it breaks its back.

[@azca.]

Jesus Christ..

[@j.edwardthompson8203]

And that my friends is why I did NOT join the military. I joined the Air Force 😉

[@Turambar3791]

@@j.edwardthompson8203 Wish you'll never be a POW

[@j.edwardthompson8203]

@@Turambar3791 Civilian for last 20 years bruh

[@joergmaass]

There's vivid description of these effects following a mine hit on a mine sweeper in the German book "Von Haien und kleinen Fischen" (Of Sharks and Little Fish). After the hit, another boat comes in and tries to save the survivors, who are constantly screaming their lungs out. When the sailors of the other boat transfer the survivors onto their own boat, they are a lot smaller because the shockwave has driven their shins into the upper thighs and their feet are where their knees should be. Their whole legs are a torn, shattered, bleeding mess, and then salt water is washing into their wounds. The sailors are so shocked that they cannot do the right thing for a while, which is to put their comrades out of their misery. And when they finally do it, the men who are still alive thank them with their eyes. They cannot speak anymore since their vocal cords are shot from constantly screaming in agony...

[@livephysiology]

Perhaps another inaccuracy is simply that all injured are equally likely to recover. None of the characters ever already have joint pain, or previous injuries, or complication from surgeries. It's not just that they walk away and seem fine, but that EVERYONE walks away and seems fine. Someone who has been through 20 explosions is as fine as someone who has been through 1 explosion. The impact of living through 20 previous explosions never seems to show up.

[@acr9319]

Great video. This is why the movie "Nobody" was an enjoyable movie for me. In the bus fight scene - the guys actually looked and felt very beat-up, like they really felt every punch and kick and they actually got 'tired' in the fight, something you don't see much in other movies.

[@wowandrss]

Nothing like a cereal ad next to a cadaver, got my appetite going there! Thanks chief. Hahah.

[@michalcerny455]

From what happend to a family friend I asume that a state of mind when injured plays a role too. The friend had a motorbike acciden. He had broken leg, opened arm fracture, broken ribs and punctured lung. And yet, he cleaned the road from broken stuf, standed the bike, locked it to a post and just went somewhere. The rescuers found him 2km far from the cras site, lying unconcious on somens garden behind 2 man sized fences he managed to climb over. Fortunetely he made it.

[@silvussol8966]

That is also the bodies “Fight or Flight” response. Adrenaline and other stuff gets pumped through your blood and body and kinda makes you superhuman for a brief period. It’s the bodies way of helping you deal with emergencies. Interestingly, this response also happens under heavy stress. It’s how stuff like panic attacks happen, the body has a full system reaction as if a life threatening situation is happening, when the reality is that it is just mental stress.

[@Coffee_Enthusiast]

I agree with what Silvus is saying. One of my relatives broke his leg in a snowmobile crash, but he could still sort of walk (most likely due to adrenaline). Whereas, I broke my leg under much less stressful circumstances, and I was on the floor in agony, and had no hope of walking for the foreseeable future. It depends on the person, and where/how they broke a limb or hurt themselves.

[@carlcushmanhybels8159]

@@silvussol8966 Yes, it's wonderful and life saving that thanks to adrenaline soldiers wounded in combat can e.g., run on a broken leg, long enough (30 sec e.g.) to get to cover.

[@peterf.229]

Also if the brain is severely injured the person might not be aware of injuries

[@WFWhitney]

I was an Army “Medic” in the mid “70’s, stationed in Muenchweiler Hospital but not hospital medic. My unit supported an EOD company (636 Ord, Co.) that had a T.S. Mission, and a separate conventional artillery shell storage facility. The “conventional “ shells had a “shelf life” and would require detonation in a place called Baumholder when their shelf life expired. When they had a “load” of shells “out of date”, and they took them to Baumholder; they always had a medic in an “ambo” along,,, “ just in case”, as it were The blasts were so intense as to make small rocks hop a foot into the air as the shock wave visibly passed by. I frequently became hoarse in screaming at the carnival ride sensation when the wave passed under the vehicle; lifting the left wheels up to come crashing down just as the right wheels were lifted off the ground. The EOD guys enjoyed my enthusiasm, and often would let me know when they would have to do it again; so I could try to ensure that I was on duty that day. Ironically, as I watch this video today; I am “recovering” from a fall off my new bicycle last week. I can’t definitively say that I would feel any different if I had never had the experience I described above. Still, I am wondering if it might have. As the great Kurt Vonnegut often wrote: “So it goes”.

[@jeremycox2983]

I have been truly fascinated with how our bodies damage control systems are and how they can react to different situations

[@michaeltillery4531]

The one that drives me crazy is a fall from height, where they just groan a bit then get up and keep fighting. Doesn’t even knock the wind out of them. They land flat on their back from 12-15 ft. onto a concrete slab with no injuries. Incredible!

[@whiskey6964]

dude i belly flopped onto soft earth from like 8 ft up and i was winded, crying, and ended up throwing up, granted i was like 8 at the time but shit like that will still hurt alot

[@ATruckCampbell]

@@whiskey6964 A few years ago I fell of of a set of pull up bars in school, about 7 or 8 feet up. I landed plumb straight onto my back on mulch, I made a funny oof noise from the air pushed out of my lungs and got up and was fine with my class laughing. Sometimes things that should hurt don't I guess.

[@charlieevilpig7776]

I watched an old serial where the good guys were on a plane and an explosion occurred. The plane crashed, the pilot was unconscious, but otherwise ok. The hero, a government man, was just fine. Up walking around despite a mangled plane. The stowaway reporter had taken the only parachute and jumped before the plane goes down. She lands in a tree and, guess what, she's fine! No broken bones. The only person who dies is the innocent wife of the bad guy, but, she still looks great. Not even her hair is messed up

[@ginnyjollykidd]

Also branch puncture wounds and splinters. Trees are not soft. And they wouldn't stay in the tree necessarily, wouldst they? And concussion and whiplash, and abrasions and contusions.

[@charlieevilpig7776]

Yes! That was the Phantom Creeps!

[@--Skip--]

I am soooo glad you feel the way I do about computer graphics blasts. I NEVER see broken bones in movies unless it is Hitchcock's movie, "Rear Window."

[@lhshnailed7523]

Love u guys. Thank you for your amazing content

[@beaverman1974]

In older movies there are so many instances of people bashing someone on the head to knock them out. Obviously really dangerous, but these days it seems to have been dropped in favour of choking someone unconscious. How bad is that in comparison?

[@darrelsartin4355]

As a former martial arts instructor, I have a similar reaction to the fight sequences. My Grandmaster used to say - "One kick, one punch, fight over'. Yet punches and kicks that would severely compromise the skeleton are routinely shaken off. This leads people to minimize the damage they expect to receive, and also to minimize the damage they can cause. Not a good situation for real world fights. Avoid them if you can.

[@jdanweathersmd3780]

I am a retired Emergency Physician. The common injury misportrayed by TV is a gun shot wound (GSW) to the upper / outer /anterior chest. Invariably TV depicts these as shoulder injuries when there is so much more real estate there than just the shoulder... the chest wall, the subclavian vessels, the aorta, the brachial plexus, the lung, to mention a few. It just drives me crazy that these injuries always heal magically in a few days in a sling. Second runner up to TV misrepresentations is the fact that TV always portrays GSW's as healing without any problem so long as you remove the bullet. Take the bullet out and all is well... Poo Bah!! Non-sense! I love ya'll's videos. Great education and enteretainment. Thanks for sharing them. Blessings to you and God Speed. J. Dan Weathers, M.D.

[@warrenedm]

Thank your for the great video and for your service.

[@EmilySmirleGURPS]

I'd love to see something on compartment syndrome, seeing tourniquets used casually, people rescued from under heavy debris who are perfectly fine afterwards...

[@danspicer79]

As I get older, my taste for violent movies has soured immensely. Good show.

[@karinmagnusongheddar6476]

I loved slasher movies as a 14-15 year old and I just can’t watch them anymore

[@bugoobiga]

subscribed. great video and I really like this style.

[@kyleshape8645]

I would love to see this channel tackle "fictional anatomy" such as the anatomy of the Adeptus Astartes, what would work, what wouldn't, and why.

[@bluesteelgaming2883]

There's a couple of things that I was thinking while watching. In the Bone and joint injuries, one of my biggest pet peeves are when the hero or the villain does a straight or bent knee drop from height. It's true that you can buffer enough to avoid injury from as much as 25 ft but you have to put a lot of training into it and you're probably not doing it if you're being chased by guys with guns or there's a bomb going off behind you. The other thing I was thinking, substantial amounts of training does overcome some of this stuff as there are ways of resisting. Like jumping from heights, free running teaches to redirect that downward momentum forward so you get propelled into a run. And it's not unheard of for members of the military to continue fighting in spite of broken bones, dislocations, and damaged muscles and ligaments. It does however cause permanent injury and they live with that pain for the rest of their lives.

[@jonathannadeau6218]

What annoys me in movies is when someone is shot with a shotgun and goes flying several feet backwards. Or even with hand grenade explosions. I’ve seen footage of actual explosions happening in crowds and nobody was flying or being propelled in the air. Even in the case of a landmine they usually don’t go very high.

[@peterf.229]

Mythbusters did a special on gun blasts , if you shot a gun and it hit someone and pushed em back 3 feet you’d fall back 3 feet too due to physics

[@N1RKW]

I think my favorite instance of something like this was an episode of House MD where a medicine that I take regularly (and is generally considered harmless) was portrayed as having deadly side effects at normal doses.

[@doreenarcher8543]

Your videos are so cool. Using the cadavers make a big difference for helping me understand and learn better. Thanks for you videos.

[@VegasCyclingFreak]

The one that bugs me is when someone gets shot and there is instantaneous copious amounts of blood splattering everywhere. Usually takes a few seconds before the massive bleeding starts to happen.

[@andreaberryman5354]

Right. Just like a shotgun to the head-somehow there is a simple hole and they fall over. We all know this action causes the skull to explode.

[@mcrchickenluvr]

That depends on where you get shot. Some parts of the body are more vascular than others. The hand for example is very vascular. Even the slightest little Knick can bleed for an hour.

[@VegasCyclingFreak]

@@mcrchickenluvr Yes I’ve cut fingers many times and it always takes a few seconds before it starts to really bleed. If you were to sever a main artery, well that’s different.

[@silvussol8966]

Yet massive slash wounds from a sword barely bleed, or only bleed on the ground. Swords and armor in general are very inconsistent. Sometimes the armor is impenetrable even for blunt force trauma, and other times the armor might as well not exist as it does nothing.

[@VegasCyclingFreak]

@@silvussol8966 ha ha yeah I totally forgot about that one!

[@sicko_the_ew]

I knew a storeman in a magazine who had a freak accident on the job. Someone dropped an assault rifle with a floating firing pin that had a round still in the chamber, and that round ricocheted round the store room, ultimately hitting my friend in the inner thigh. He had a huge dent there, going right down to the femur (so was lucky not to have had damage to the femoral artery - which I was told by our prof in a short course on forensic evidence is not a lot different from damage to the aorta). On the one hand, it's a testament to how much damage a human body can sustain yet still remain functional, and on the other, it made me very aware of how dangerous a round in the chamber is, of the fact that there are no flesh wounds, and that even when a rifle bullet has dissipated most of its energy it can still be potentially lethal. Years later I was a prosecutor. Had a court orderly who must have lied about his age when he joined the police. He was ancient. Would fall asleep in court, and snore (and everyone just left him in peace). One day he was on lunch, a woman who spotted the thug who had robbed her a few days ago in a diner, went looking for a policeman to arrest him, and found this elderly orderly. So off he went to go and carry out the arrest. Was very gentle about it. Thug said, "Can I please finish my food?", and he let him. Then the thug ran, this policeman ran after him, tried to tackle him, wasn't strong enough to bring down a tough young man, took a punch to the face, I think, so there ran the thug down the street. So the old policeman drew his firearm, fired one shot, hit the thug in the calf, and could then go and carry out the arrest, call the ambulance, etc. The case was in my court. I remember the events, but the thing that made the biggest impact was how messed up that thug was. One shot to the calf, and he had a lifelong limp/ could never walk properly again. (It was so bad, I doubt if he could ever run again.) So that's what a "flesh wound" from a 9mm round placed to do as little harm as possible can do to you. Worst bullet wound injuries I ever saw were the ones that happened to the delivery driver of a friend of mine who was an egg farmer. (That's apart from things like the way a 20mm cannon can leave a big entry wound in the back of someone's head, and literally no face, for an exit wound. ... I think I'll just stop that thought.) The egg delivery driver. Strict instructions to just surrender if hijacked. Let them take the truck, let them take the money, let them take the eggs. Let insurance sort out some of the damages, but come home alive. He got hijacked. He surrendered. Off went the hijackers. There he stood, alone in the twilight, on a semi-rural roadside. Incident over. But for some or other reason, one of the hijackers decided it would be better to go back and kill him. So there came the truck, back again, and he knew there was trouble on the way, so he ran, and they stopped and shot at him as he ran. One of the rounds hit him in the calf. For some reason they didn't follow up, and go and kill him. Off they drove. Left him lying there. Lucky for him he managed to get a lift to a hospital soon enough not to die. But the doctor decided to amputate from the knee down. And he picked up an infection in hospital. Final result: the rest of his leg (all of it) was amputated. There are No flesh wounds. I actually have my own story to tell on this topic, too. A tale of carelessness and luck. Was in a rented flat. Had a 9mm and no proper safe for it (eventually I used to hide it in the chimney of a fireplace by day. At night it was by my side, ready. Lots of crime in that area.) For some reason I put in in the top of the cupboard, rolled up inside a fleece. Then got a bit cold, pulled the fleece, noticed it felt a bit heavy, down fell the pistol, with safety catch engaged (but it had a floating firing pin, so not a good idea to have a round ready in the chamber). It hit the floor barrel first, made a bang (and the reflex spasm was so strong that the ankle adjacent to it is still messed up). It was only a flesh wound, apart from the damage done to me by my own muscles over-contracting. I'll take that over the other possible consequences (like a discharge with the barrel pointing straight at me). NEVER LEAVE A ROUND IN THE CHAMBER IF YOU HAVE FLOATING FIRING PIN.

[@sicko_the_ew]

I see I called the injury of my storeman friend a "dent". That's too mild. It was a dent that stretched the entire length of his femur, almost. More like a "hollow".

[@mc_va]

OMG to the egg truck driver and his leg. Those thieves were pure evil.

[@sicko_the_ew]

@@mc_va Absolutely. They had what they wanted, so it really was just pure evil that made them come back. I've heard of worse, though (not many cases). Probably best to spare the details, though. Bad enough is bad enough. I suppose I should tell the bright side too. (It's not that shiny, but still). He didn't let it get him down. If it had been me I'd have gone over to permanent moroseness, but he just got on with life in the new circumstances.

[@peterf.229]

For the damage , none of those were flesh wounds. I got one in my arm, it was a piece of window glass , it flew and hit my arm and grazed it . Bullets hitting muscle and bone aren’t a flesh would, people actually survive gunshot wounds, even to the head.

[@candidaaguiar953]

Fantastic ! What a free class with so much knowledge. The human body is a wonderful machine and a universe with so much to know. Things make sense and all falls into place, once we know how it works and why . Great to see your videos. Educational / hope they are seen by everyone !!!! Thank you for such valuable information. Best wishes. 👍

[@lucasmoreira3237]

Amazing information. Thank you.

[@timothyodering6299]

1) I got punched in the head multiple times recently (haymaker style) by a young fit guy. I won't say why. There was little of the injury you described but within maybe 4 punches I became unconscious and was out for the remainder of the assault. Very serious concussion style brain injury might have happened. 'Luckily' I was OK. You could cover brain stem injuries in detail. 2) Abdominal puncture injuries where the skin just gets sown up bother me. You covered this a bit but not enough for me. 3) The effect on youth of America in particular, seeing these serious injuries in movies. The hero gets up and carries on. Young people emulate this in real life and then are amazed when they find themselves in court for murder having killed class mates or an employer who treated them bad or an ex girlfriends new partner. Who new they would be permanently injured or killed? In movies they always get up and shake it off. 4) I loved to watch 'mythbusters' when it was on because they enacted scenarios that we otherwise wouldn't have access to. Explosive and fire scenes and the details of car crash scenes in particular. Debunking the myths within movies, like they did, would help youth in particular I think. Save lives. 5) Oh yes. Boxing gloves are used to prolong the fight. To minimise the effect of a single punch. Otherwise the fight would always be over in seconds

[@jnr1989]

So you lost the fight

[@timothyodering6299]

@@jnr1989 😕 I guess so. I'm an old man ;65. And it was really an assault rather than a fight. I didn't expect it, didn't have time to process and react so didn't defend it either. But yes, a mouthy old man lost a 'fight' to a huge healthy young buck. 'Mouthy' because I called him and them cowardly. Cowards only fight when they expect to win. So I guess I was right? Happens sometimes.

[@jacksterattacks8326]

@@timothyodering6299 Wow this guy came in here aggressive and you just shut him down, you'd probably beat him in a fight at the ripe age 65 anyways...

[@jnr1989]

@@timothyodering6299 but he was charged for the assault?

[@timothyodering6299]

@@jnr1989 no I don't press charges.

[@sootuckchoong7077]

That's why I keep wondering why police have to shoot someone many, many times, being shot all over the body, when actually one shot is actually enough to make him get caught and surrounded.

[@carlcushmanhybels8159]

From real police videos I learned one reason American police are taught to fire several shots center mass "To stop the threat" as they phrase it: Is, unfortunately, with adrenaline kicking in, plus often drugs and alcohol, one shot will not halt many already-out-of-control perps; not halt them or not quickly enough. I also learned the often suggested "Why not shoot him in the leg?" alternate scenario, as shown in Westerns and some Action movies, isn't good because there are big arteries in legs, they'll bleed out. And it's harder to hit a leg than center mass. We do need more effective, and quick non-lethal methods of genuinely stopping threats quickly enough.

[@tibo6749]

Drugged up people can walk off one or two shots usually or even more. Drugs do weird stuff to people

[@DepthStrider222]

Cool stuff, thank you for your service.

[@2pintos]

Thank you! Excellent video.

[@wereshipsinthenight2244]

Your contents are great to watch!!!!! Thanks for making these videos ☺️

[@theanatomylab]

Glad you like them!! Thanks for watching!!

[@quiet_shy]

I really appreciate this honest video! Action movies have become more and more artistic in the way their characters deal with such injuries and I find it incredibly frustrating. The ones that annoys me most is when they pour a load of alcohol on a huge wound like its nothing or when they always have to dig around inside someone to get a bullet out.

[@rotub]

Lol most random left field ad I've seen. Great video thanks!

[@smallgreenmelon]

Came in expecting youtube click bait, stayed because it help firm up what I knew, correct msinformation, and educate on other subjects. It's nice to find actual information on youtube, even if its not something applicable to my current life.

[@lawdog516]

Your channel is beyond fascinating !!! I viewed all your videos multiple times!! I’m retired Law Enforcement with 43 years of service and have been to many autopsies that I found to be educational and fascinating but I do have a question about something you said. You gave a viewer warning about showing the arm with the hand and fingers, is that something that some people have an issue with? Thanks again for your commitment to educate the public!!

[@dirty_nine]

Hello, sir, from what i've seen in other videos people tend to get freaked out when they see fingernails on video. I do not know exactly why as well, but it just seems fingernails give people the heebie-jeebies.

[@lawdog516]

@@dirty_nine Interesting, thanks

[@anushas141]

Yeah, I think the main reason people freak out over hands and arms is that we interact with and see our own hands and other people's hands all our lives. It's something personal, human, and intimate. Internal organs usually don't freak people out because you very rarely see or directly interact with them, they're hidden inside. I personally don't have any issues seeing the hands of a body, but I can see why others do.

[@lawdog516]

@@anushas141 That’s a good prospective, thanks

[@EmilyGOODEN0UGH]

I didn't think it would bother me, but then my whole body tensed up looking at the degloved hand with fingernails still on it.....

[@CelieSchae]

My big pet peeve is when someone is unconscious and everyone starts moving them around messing with the neck and spine! Ah!!! STop!!!!!

[@gregsantos9731]

Oh yeah, i really enjoyed it, especially that full right arm! Nice one! 😊

[@ConGamePro]

I love learning what weapons actually do to our bodies. Thanks!!