People who walk and stand after a traumatic leg injury

RickSOG

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If anyone has been kicked in the shin knows how much it hurts unless you train mauy Thai, then with shrapnel penetrating into the shin area no one would be standing, it would be agonizing pain. Adrenaline can not be used as a reason, I have seen fighters break shins and scream in pain, adrenaline from fighting didn't prevent pain, any injury to the shin will give you pain no matter who you are.
 
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When I blew my MCL 8 years ago, I could walk pain free most of that afternoon, mostly running on adrenaline, in my opinion. Pain set in that evening, and I was unable to walk or even put weight on my leg that night and the following days.
Really? When I did my medial ligament it was really painful and had to be helped of the field. I was on crutches straight away and for the next 6 weeks after, in my experience adrenaline didnt make pain magically go away.
 
According to deidre he is bleeding to death, evidence of that please.
If anyone has been kicked in the shin knows how much it hurts unless you train mauy Thai, then with shrapnel penetrating into the shin area no one would be standing, it would be agonizing pain. Adrenaline can not be used as a reason, I have seen fighters break shins and scream in pain, adrenaline from fighting didn't prevent pain, any injury to the shin will give you pain no matter who you are.
So are you saying any shin injury means you're incapacitated and cannot walk at all because of extreme pain? Any evidence for that other than when you banged your shin on the coffee table?
 
Really? When I did my medial ligament it was really painful and had to be helped of the field. I was on crutches straight away and for the next 6 weeks after, in my experience adrenaline didnt make pain magically go away.
And in his it did. You can both be correct in your anecdotal experience.
 
Adrenaline can not be used as a reason, I have seen fighters break shins and scream in pain, adrenaline from fighting didn't prevent pain, any injury to the shin will give you pain no matter who you are.
Adrenaline and shock most certainly can mask pain. There are plenty of battlefield experiences to prove it. There are plenty of non battlefield experiences to prove it as well. Check out this story of a man in New Zealand who drove to a service station with a metal rod sticking out of his head:

Police say the 23-year-old was attacked while sitting in his parked car in a suburban street. He was punched in the head then struck with the rod.

Incredibly, not only was he was able to drive about four blocks to the petrol station, he arrived in a composed state.
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Snapping your shin in half is a different injury to having a foreign body embedded in flesh.
 
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So are you saying any shin injury means you're incapacitated and cannot walk at all because of extreme pain? Any evidence for that other than when you banged your shin on the coffee table?
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These shin injuries look painful, I have done a little training and seen the shin injuries and the pain they cause from muay thai.
Are you saying that shin injuries don't hurt? Including banging your shin on a coffee table or a tow ball on the back of your car, it always hurts or are you immune to shin pain?
 

Adrenaline and shock most certainly can mask pain. There are plenty of battlefield experiences to prove it. There are plenty of non battlefield experiences to prove it as well. Check out this story of a man in New Zealand who drove to a service station with a metal rod sticking out of his head:

Police say the 23-year-old was attacked while sitting in his parked car in a suburban street. He was punched in the head then struck with the rod.

Incredibly, not only was he was able to drive about four blocks to the petrol station, he arrived in a composed state.
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Snapping your shin in half is a different injury to having a foreign body embedded in flesh.
Its still going to hurt
 
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These shin injuries look painful, I have done a little training and seen the shin injuries and the pain they cause from muay thai.
Are you saying that shin injuries don't hurt? Including banging your shin on a coffee table or a tow ball on the back of your car, it always hurts or are you immune to shin pain?
No, not even close to resembling anything I was saying.
I'm saying, that you saying, that shin injuries always result in being unable to stand, is an opinion based on your anecdotal evidence, and is contradicted by other's anecdotal evidence, but more importantly, by the evidence of her injury and the fact that she *was* standing.
It seems a little silly to argue that if she had a shin injury she would be unable to stand, therefore her standing proves she had no shin injury.
 
No, not even close to resembling anything I was saying.
I'm saying, that you saying, that shin injuries always result in being unable to stand, is an opinion based on your anecdotal evidence, and is contradicted by other's anecdotal evidence, but more importantly, by the evidence of her injury and the fact that she *was* standing.
It seems a little silly to argue that if she had a shin injury she would be unable to stand, therefore her standing proves she had no shin injury.
OK, yes you can be standing but you would at least be bent over rubbing it like you do when you bang your shin, head or elbow not completely ignoring it, you would roll your pants up straight away and tourniquet it like everyone else.
 
If you had shrapnel in your shin you would roll your pants up and tourniquet it like everyone else is what I mean
Well maybe you would, and maybe I would too, but she didn't, and the fact that she didn't proves nothing, so it's not really worth arguing over.

I'm going to bed now so I won't be able to approve your posts for a while.
(Your posts need to be approved probably because you've received warnings for being off-topic or not really up to general posting standards. It wears off eventually but try to make your posts count a little more by being more precise in your claims or including verifiable evidence with your arguments, and don't just argue from personal incredulity.)
 
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These shin injuries look painful, I have done a little training and seen the shin injuries and the pain they cause from muay thai.
Are you saying that shin injuries don't hurt? Including banging your shin on a coffee table or a tow ball on the back of your car, it always hurts or are you immune to shin pain?
Watch the video of the skier I posted earlier. He had his calf sliced open, his hamstring tendon partially severed, and he got up, put his skis back on and skied down to the finish. And he didn't leave a "huge pool of blood" anywhere. There was only a small amount of blood on his leggings even several minutes later.

Classic argument from incredulity: "I don't think the person should have acted like that, therefore they are faking it."
 
Its still going to hurt

I got rear ended on my motorcycle a few years ago. Snapped my tibia and fibula in half. HORRIBLE "twisting" break. I couldn't stand on it, but not because of pain. I don't know if it was adrenaline, shock, a combination or something else, but I felt no pain what so ever in my leg. None. Even though I knew instantly it was broken. In fact when the paramedics were checking me out the only pain I was feeling was a sore neck because I was holding my head up.

So no, it isn't always going to hurt.
 
I dare someone to fire a piece of shrapnel into someone's shin when they are not looking and see if they will be just standing there with their full weight on it and act like it's not even there, impossible!
Think about it
 
I got rear ended on my motorcycle a few years ago. Snapped my tibia and fibula in half. HORRIBLE "twisting" break. I couldn't stand on it, but not because of pain. I don't know if it was adrenaline, shock, a combination or something else, but I felt no pain what so ever in my leg. None. Even though I knew instantly it was broken. In fact when the paramedics were checking me out the only pain I was feeling was a sore neck because I was holding my head up.

So no, it isn't always going to hurt.
Were you drunk? Because that can contribute to not feeling pain also.
 
if he's bleeding to death as deidre says
stop quoting me out of context. his WIFE .. THOUGHT he was bleeding to death so she was ignoring her injury.

Violent, unexpected trauma (like a bombing) is going to cause different rections to a person than experienced by someone who willfully enters a ring and is expecting to feel pain through fighting.
yup

and maybe I would too
if I get blown up by a bomb, you better NOT stop and tourniquet your little shrapnel wound before checking on me... or I will nag at you about it for the rest of your life. (just saying) : )
 
Are you saying that shin injuries don't hurt? Including banging your shin on a coffee table or a tow ball on the back of your car, it always hurts or are you immune to shin pain?
Yes they hurt, but they are not always incapacitating, In my school days I was a bit of an athlete, I race walked (and threw the hammer - yes an odd combo, but there you go) In one race 10,000m I was badly spiked on the shin at the start, yup it hurt like hell, but only for a minute or so, I pushed on and still finished 7th, the adrenaline kept me going.
 
Adrenaline can not be used as a reason, I have seen fighters break shins and scream in pain, adrenaline from fighting didn't prevent pain

In 2002 Donovan McNabb fractured his shin bone in three places on the first drive of a game, and after going to the bench to get taped up, he returned to the game, passed for 255 yards and four touchdowns, took another sack, and at the end of the game fell down and couldn't walk for most of the next six weeks.

And Jack Youngblood would call McNabb a pansy (well, he probably wouldn't, he's supposed to be a great guy, but if he did, there's not many people in the world qualified to disagree with him). In 1979, he had almost the same injury, finished the game, and then came back to play the NFC championship game and the Pro Bowl AND the Super Bowl, all on that broken shin bone. He got through it by intentionally hyperventilating and putting stress on the injury to get his adrenaline up before the game and keep it up when he wasn't on the field.


Not all athletes are built euqal, but more importantly, not all injuries are equal. Joe Theismann also suffered a shin injury playing football in 1985, and his career ended right there, because it was not the same type of injury as McNabb's or Youngblood's. Theismann's is often cited as one of the most shocking and gruesome injuries in sports history, let alone his sport.

Still, the adrenaline argument comes in here, too. He was able to get to his feet. He couldn't walk because the leg was too badly damaged, but after the initial pain, this is what he had to say:
"It was at that point, I also found out what a magnificent machine the human body is," Theismann said. "Almost immediately, from the knee down, all the feeling was gone in my right leg. The endorphins had kicked in, and I was not in pain. I remember looking up and seeing Bubba being on my left side. I looked at him and said, 'Please call my mom and tell her I'm okay.' Joe was kneeling on my right side. He's looking at me and he says, 'You mean so much to this club, and now you've left me in one heck of a mess.' "
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/17/AR2005111701635.html
 
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Freak's injury reminded me that my little sister broke her tibia and fibula in a twisting break when she was like 8 or 9 years old. She felt no pain, didn't even realize she was hurt and tried to stand up. She fell right back down when the bones slid past each other and made that leg a couple of inches shorter but it still didn't hurt.

About 25 years ago I dislocated my left shoulder but it took a good 20 or 30 minutes before I felt any pain. Sliced the side of my pinkie finger fillet style when a glass I was washing broke but I didn't feel any pain until the doc stuck a needle into the wound to numb it before sewing it up. About 15 years ago I nearly cut the space between my nose and upper lip in half ( the philtrum ) when an abrasive cutting wheel kicked back and hit me in the face leaving a 1/8 inch wide gash, but it didn't hurt until the doc stuck a needle into it almost an hour later.

The body has an amazing ability to block/mask the pain of traumatic injuries.
 
After an injury you cannot say that a person will be in agonising pain. Pain is a concept relative to the person as everyone has their own threshold. Most pain scales are numerical and based on self reporting, i.e. you go to hospital and the doctor asks "On a scale of 1 to 10 how much does it hurt when I squeeze these?" There are a number of scales that can be used, most of which are self reporting. Wiki gives some examples which goes to highlight how difficult it is to try to rate or even perceive anothers pain.


Partial list of pain measurement scales[edit]
This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.
  • Alder Hey Triage Pain Score [5]
  • Behavioral Pain Scale (BPS)[6]
  • Original index (1987)[21]
  • 1991 revision[22]
  • 1997 revision[23]
Specialized tests[edit]
  • Disease-Specific Pain Scale: DSPI = (ΣX · Y) · 100 where X is the highest pain level on a 0–10 scale and Y is the percentage of this pain level in the group. The DSPI is different from the simple numeric 0–10 scale in that it is measured for a group of patients with a specific diagnosis whereas the numeric 0–10 pain scale is administered individually.[33]
  • Pediatric Pain Questionnaire (PPQ)[34] for measuring pain in children
  • Premature Infant Pain Profile (PIPP)[35] for measuring pain in premature infants
  • Schmidt Sting Pain Index[36] and Starr sting pain scale[37] both for insect stings
  • Colorado Behavioral Numerical Pain Scale (for sedated patients)[38]
  • AUSCAN: Disease-Specific, to assess hand osteoarthritis outcomes.[20]
  • WOMAC : Disease-Specific, to assess knee osteoarthritis outcomes.[20]
  • Osteoarthritis Research Society International-Outcome Measures in Rheumatoid Arthritis Clinical Trials (OARSI-OMERACT) Initiative, New OA Pain Measure: Disease-Specific, Osteoarthritis Pain[20]
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At the end of the day if we see someone who appears to be in great pain we empathise by placing our own experience over theirs, yet that experience may be greater or lesser than we actually think. Also, anecdotally, our pain thresholds can change with time. I have had a number of injuries that I have carried over time and since then I appear to have a greater threshold for pain. Again, purely anecdotally, but my ex wife had 5 children, 4 at home, but all only using nitrous oxide for pain relief even though the children were large. She could not understand why some women would need epidural blocks or other pain relief as her experience clouded her perception of others pain. I hope that makes sense
 
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When all is said and done, a rational person acknowledges that people
have significantly different responses to injury
(pain not being fully felt, initially, or emergency circumstances compelling
them to "soldier through" the
pain because a crisis pushes them to)
so claims that any particular person "wouldn't act that way"
are understood to be simply groundless...
never mind totally worthless as serious 'proof' that a real life tragedy didn't really happen.





p.s. Sounds like somebody may be volunteering their shin for some science. :p
I dare someone to fire a piece of shrapnel into someone's shin...
 
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You would be incredulous if told someone might not notice they had a knife in their neck, or a nail in their skull, but it happens.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1248155/The-mugging-victim-inch-knife--didnt-notice.html

An extraordinary picture that has gone around the world of a knife plunged into the back of a woman mugging victim is genuine, it was revealed by doctors in Moscow tonight.

Julia Popova, 22, was stabbed by a mugger as she walked home from work one day last autumn - but she was so traumatised by the attack that she walked home without realising the knife was embedded in her, just a fraction of an inch from her spinal cord.

In the image, blood is shown gushing from the wound as surgeons stare in awe, apparently preparing to operate to remove the six-inch blade.
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and more than once:
http://articles.philly.com/2000-03-04/news/25604306_1_knife-assailant-woman

A 62-year-old Colwyn woman was walking to a Yeadon grocery store early yesterday morning when someone ran up behind her and struck her in the neck.

The woman did her shopping - buying a newspaper and Oreo cookies - and walked the half-mile home, unaware for at least 40 minutes of what no passersby, other shoppers or clerks bothered to mention:

The handle of a kitchen knife was sticking out of her neck.
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A man accidentally fired a nail into his head as he was doing some handiwork around his Chicago home.

Dante Autullo believed he brushed the gun past his head which caused the sensor to accidentally release a nail. Unsure of what had happened, he asked his fiancée Gail Glaenzer to check his head and see if there was any blood.

She said everything seemed okay because all she could see was a small gash.
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So this is all an illustration of how incredulity is not an argument.
 
Even people with broken necks or backs can carry on doing what they are doing despite horrific and life threatening injuries.

Remember Bert Trautmann and the 1956 FA Cup final?
With 17 minutes remaining, a Birmingham chance arose when Murphy outpaced Dave Ewing. Goalkeeper Trautmann dived at the feet of Murphy to win the ball, but in the collision Murphy's right knee hit Trautmann's neck with a forceful blow. Trautmann was knocked unconscious, and the referee stopped play immediately. Trainer Laurie Barnett rushed onto the pitch, and treatment continued for several minutes. No substitutes were permitted, so Manchester City would have to see out the game with ten men if Trautmann was unable to continue. Captain Roy Paul felt certain that Trautmann was not fit to complete the match, and wished to put Roy Little in goal instead. However, Trautmann, dazed and unsteady on his feet, insisted upon keeping his goal. He played out the remaining minutes in great pain, with the Manchester City defenders attempting to clear the ball well upfield or into the stand whenever it came near. Trautmann was called upon to make two further saves to deny Brown and Murphy, the second causing him to recoil in agony due to a collision with Ewing, which required the trainer to revive him..... []

.....Trautmann attended the evening's post-match banquet (where Alma Cogan sang to the players) despite being unable to move his head, and went to bed expecting his injury to heal with rest. As the pain did not recede, the following day he went to St George's Hospital, where he was told he merely had a crick in his neck which would go away.[67] Three days later, he got a second opinion from a doctor at Manchester Royal Infirmary. An X-ray revealed he had dislocated five vertebrae in his neck, the second of which was cracked in two. The third vertebra had wedged against the second, preventing further damage which could have cost Trautmann his life.
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There's a joke just about every medical show has done about pain scale reporting and how hard it is for doctors, let alone different people, to understand each other's levels of pain. The usual setup is two patients in adjoining rooms. In one will be a guy with a cut on his hand or arm getting two stitches or or just a cleaning swab saying, "Ten ten ten oh god nothing has ever hurt this bad ever," and in the next there'll be a stern-looking older (frequently Asian for some reason) gentleman with a knife in his shoulder saying, "Four."
 
If anyone has been kicked in the shin knows how much it hurts unless you train mauy Thai, then with shrapnel penetrating into the shin area no one would be standing, it would be agonizing pain.

I know somebody that got shot by a neighbor that was target shooting without a proper backstop. She walked home and drove to the hospital to have the bullet removed.
 
Really? When I did my medial ligament it was really painful and had to be helped of the field.

I'm a goal keeper. Opposing team had their school's heavy weight wrestler playing striker (bunch of bash-ball wallies). Fatass fell on my extended leg and "did my MCL". I finished the game but laid out the rest of the season. Broke my hand on the goal post once. Finished three games before I decided that it was more than a bruise.

Will say that when I broke a kid's shin clear through in a collision, he went down and stayed down. But that is different than having shrapnel in the leg isn't it. His leg was structurally incapable of supporting any weight. Looked like he had two knees. I get the sweats thinking about what his leg looked like. My shin swelled so badly from that collision that I had to cut my sock on that leg and tape on my broken shin guard. I finished the tournament since my leg was intact even if there was a busted vein in there somewhere causing a lot of pain and swelling.
 
People often think that the more sever the injury, the more sever the pain. I think only true to a degree, because pain is a mechanism that evolved (partly) to warn you that you are about to hurt yourself, not that you just hurt yourself. During evolution of humans, people who lost a leg would be very unlikely to survive, and of those that did then having incapacitating pain would not be helpful.

Worst pain I ever had was when I had a root canal and a hole at the base of my gum, and I decided some mouthwash might help. So that was basically like pouring alcohol on an exposed nerve and a new reference point for 10 was indelibly ripped into my brain with white hot steel claws. That was 20 years ago, and I don't think I've been above 6 since.

And that wasn't even really an injury.
 
My uncle was shot by a sniper on Saipan in WWII and didn't even realize it at first. The bullet clipped the top of his lung. I'm pretty sure his adrenaline was flowing since two other G.I.s had just gotten bullets through the head. It was only when he saw his own blood that he knew he was shot.
 
I dare someone to fire a piece of shrapnel into someone's shin when they are not looking and see if they will be just standing there with their full weight on it and act like it's not even there, impossible!

I think there has been enough anecdotes on here refuting your absolute assertions on what you think is and is not too painful to endure.

One point I think you missed is context - in isolation a papercut can have me dancing around like a dervish, but in combat or traumatic (by which I mean sudden or unexpected) injuries in which other jeopardies are present, other things can take priority and your eye off the ball.
 
RickSOG, I would like to dispute your claims regarding shin injuries with my own personal and anecdotal experiences.

My experience with leg injuries is extensive. I broke my left fibula and tibula playing rugby, and felt no dicernable pain. The bones broke badly enough for me to need temporary wires to hold the bones in place while healing. I felt no discernible pain. It only started to hurt after the surgery the next day. So there, it is possible to break a bone that badly and not feel significant pain.

My cousins experience: He broke his leg during a rugby match and finished the game. And as a flyhalf, he was the kicker. So there, you can perform beyond simply walking around with a broken leg bone.

I was a professional Muay Thai fighter, in Thailand. You always feel getting kicked in the shins. Anyone who tells you otherwise is wrong. The reality is, you just get over it. This is exactly what Karen Brassard did. She saw her husband in trouble and simply ignored or failed to acknowledge her injury. For her, it was mind over matter.
 
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