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Subscribe to RSSTelevision shows and movies may portray people getting hit in the crotch as comical, but it's a serious issue that sends almost 16,000 men and women to U.S. emergency rooms every year, according to a study.
Bicycles, furniture and clothing are all items blamed for the injuries, which can go on to cause people physical, psychological and reproductive problems later on, said senior author Benjamin Breyer, an assistant professor of urology at the University of California, San Francisco.
"To put this in perspective, the yearly incidence of these (injuries) is almost twice as much as dental injuries, and about the same as electrical and chemical burns," Breyer added.
In the past, most research looked at severe genital and urinary tract injuries caused by major trauma, such as car accidents. For the new study, which appeared in The Journal of Urology, Breyer and his colleagues decided to look at those injuries thought to be caused by common consumer products.
The team analyzed a national database of emergency room visits caused by consumer products, identifying all genital injuries to men and women 18 years and older between 2002 and 2010.
The injured body parts included, among other things, penises, testicles, bladders, kidneys and external female genitalia.
Overall, 142,143 injuries sent people to an emergency room over the nine-year period, which worked out to about 15,794 per year - a number that didn't seem to change over time.
Sporting items were the most common cause of injuries among people of all ages. These included bicycles as well as basketball, soccer, football and baseball equipment.
Breyer said one example of damage from a sporting item is people falling forward on their bicycles and landing on the center bar. Padding or cushioning could help avoid injuries.
Other accidents involved clothing, shaving items and bathing products, including men catching their penises in zippers or people cutting themselves while trying to shave their pubic hair.
"I was surprised to find how many injuries from bicycles, personal grooming and bathrooms there were. Those to me were unexpected," Breyer said.
The types of injuries also differed by age and sex. Men were injured the most, accounting for about two thirds of the emergency room visits.
Young people were the most often injured, with 18 to 28 year olds making up roughly 40 percent of the visits. Older people sustained only about eight percent of the injuries, but were more likely to hurt themselves during everyday activities, such as taking a shower.
"The next step is to get a little more information on the actual injuries, what happens to the patients and the mechanism of how it happens," Breyer said, noting that this could be used to develop programs to prevent these injuries.
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thats nuts that there are so many
LOL. Love the pun.
Oh brother, another government research into how "mechanisms" cause genital injuries.
My former fiance was a ER doctor and she told me that she would see a few times a year injuries like:
Men using "Nair" to remove pubic hair and the testicles would swell up to the size of a softball in reaction to the harsh chemicals.
Also, she said it was very common for men and women to have a bottle stuck in their anus and vagina. Because of the tremendous suction created when attempting to pull it out, doctors had to drill a small hole in the bottle to equalize the pressure allowing them to remove it.
My favorite, was the story where a woman came into the ER with Toxic Shock Syndrome which is normally caused by women leaving impacted tampons in their vagina. In this case, my fiance was surprised to find a fowl smelling wad of money that the woman had shoved up in her weeks prior and subsquently forgot about it. When my fiance asked her how did that get in there, she responded that it was the only place she could hide money from her husband, LMFAO!
I $#!+ you not these stories are all true, LOL!
Karl Rove should be showing up soon to get the 2012 election pulled out of his a$$.
Kacie? Is this you?
A gorilla escapes from the zoo and after 3 weeks, the zoo keepers give up looking for him. Some time later, a man calls the zoo complaining of a gorilla in a tree in his back yard. The zoo keeper rushes right over. When he arrives, he has a net, a baseball bat, a shotgun, and a Dachshund.
The man asks what the items are for. He's told, "I'm gonna climb the tree and hit the gorilla in the head with the baseball bat. When he falls out of the tree, you throw the net over him, and the Dachshund will go straight for his balls." The man asks, "But what's the shotgun for?"
The zoo keeper answers, "If I miss the gorilla and fall out of the tree, you shoot the Dachshund."
And, why do these unfortunate incidents always have to show up on "America's Funniest Home Videos"?
I heard this when I was training to work as an EMT.
This guy was taking a shower, his wife called him out because the kitchen drain stopped up. He came out of the shower nude and was crouched under the sink trying unstop the drain, as his balls were swinging freely, the family cat came bye reached up and grabbed his balls, the guy raised up so fast, he hit his head on the underside of the sink and knocked himself out. His wife called the fire dept. As the EMT's were taking him out on the stretcher, his wife told them what happen, the EMT's started laughing, and they laughed so hard they dropped the guy and his arm was broken.
but why is it soooo funny when people get hurt there? is it the faces they make? I know laughter can be a defense mechanism.... also, for people whose genitals are injured due to a horrible accident, (ie car crash) that is no laughing matter, and I couldn't imagine being sterile because of something like that =[
Something BO doesn't have to worry about since he doesn't have a "set" -- not unless Michelle lets them out of her purse.
If the human body had been designed by a man, I doubt seriously he would have placed the such sensitive parts on the outside of the body. Least ways, no man who ever had his feet slip off the peddles of his bike and landed, crotch-first, on cross bar would have done so.
You know, barlow, I heard that story many years ago, when I was a boy; I don't recall the source, but it was purportedly true.
To me, it sounds more like an urban legend, but who knows...
If it is true, I'd love to hear the hard facts on the case. He wouldn't be the first man badly hurt by a pussy, would he?
...and somebody is still getting over Tuesday's election.
Just take deep breaths, dotties, and keep repeating, "It could be worse. It could have been someone like George W. Bush winning.".
Feels better. Doesn't it.
Writing up the incident report for these injuries could prove challenging. At least, if one hoped for a bit of decorum.
Barlow, that little story is so obviously phony. For starters, this wouldn't be a load & go so all pertinent information would have been gotten before leaving the scene. EMTs don't laugh at their patients. Most importantly, it's virtually unheard of for EMTs to drop a patient. . . we use Stryker cots.
It would have been more interesting if they would have supplied the number for the genders, IMO.
Just guessing, but I'll bet men have this problem more in the neigbourhood of 10 to 1.... (no slights to the ladies, but ... there's just more hanging out to get injured, you know).
According to Dave Attell, if you ever get a cucumber lodged in your butt you need two things. A pair of ice tongs and a friend who can keep a secret.
You are an expert on this;-}
I was listening to some ER surgeons and the stories were funny as heck about the different things they have had to remove from peoples bottoms. Everything from gerbils and hamsters to standard household items to women's things. It was a good laugh.
I really wonder about the people that do those sort of things. These were mostly men!
They live among us and reproduce!
There's a book called "Stuck Up" that is full of x rays showing objects in human bodies in places where they shouldn't be.
No mention of women sticking objects up themselves? Or men sticking their penis' in vacumn sweeper hoses or the like? Come on, that has to be a factor. I remember when I was in school a girl had to have a hot dog removed that broke off inside.
And before the smart ass remarks start, I am NOT speaking from experience.
Why would she try to eat a hot dog with that?
My school to supposedly.
That girl was at everyone's school.
'Why would she try to eat a hot dog with that?'
Maybe she was holding it for a friend.
"And before the smart ass remarks start, I am NOT speaking from experience."
Then, Mrs Steady, you are a pretty good writer!
They forgot to mention the jack-ass wannabes who do it for a few Youtube views. Spend anytime in the social media area and it's easy to see.
Let's not forget about that famous actor and the live gerbil.
Or Lorena Bobbit clamping down on her husband's little friend.
The gerbil incident never happened, it was a fairytail just like the famous singer who had all the semen pumped out of his stomach after passing out on stage, never happened. But the Bobbit story was a fact.
Yeah but this didn't seen to be a very serious thread so just having a little fun.
One word.............Gerbils !
I think every HS had the same (hot dog) story. Ours also had a rumor regarding a coke bottle getting caught because of creating a vacuum. Thus it had to be drilled before removal from the female. No one ever had the gonads to ask her. She's still around. After almost thirty years, maybe it is time to get to the bottom of it?? : o
This will make any man (or woman) cringe. Read about this several years ago.
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/~pinto/scrot.html
That was horrible......:-p
There are no words.....
eeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr NUTS
My wife, after suffering intense emoting pain for this poor fellow, stated: "It's a good thing he was a loner, and did not reproduce."
2005 was the year of the penis, I prayed every day that I would make it to 2006 with my junk intact. It started of innocently enough when my wife got her labia pierced, within a few weeks I began to notice water blisters forming in my pubic region. Come to find out I was allergic to the antibiotic gel they gave her to keep her piercings from getting infected.
A few weeks later I was at work on a drilling rig 100 miles from nowhere (and the only one with a valid drivers license). I was sitting on the double gate holding the hammer wrench with a rope when the moron swinging the 20 pound sledge hammer missed and came down on the head of my penis. I jumped down and yanked my blood soaked pants down to make sure everything was still there, the driller fainted when he saw my stuff which the head of looked like a giant black plumb. Being the only none drunk on the rig I had to drive myself to the hospital, where I found out there was actually nothing they could do. A week later they smashed my finger with a sledge. My penis healed up to normal within a month but my finger was messed up for a long time. who would have known the penis was so resiliant that it could take a direct hit with a 20 pound and a month later show no signs what so ever of being smashed between to pieces of steel.
But that was not the end of my penile troubles in 2005. While staying in the mancamp in the oilfield I contracted ecoli, unbeknownst to me. I thought I had the flu so I just ignored it and continued to try and work for two more weeks but I just kept getting sicker and sicker until one day I noticed my testicles were beginning to swell. Once again I had to drive myself the 100 miles to the hospital where the doctor at the emergency room said "you have ecoli, it has worked it's way into every system of your body, you are deathly ill, here take these and go home". A week later my testicles were the size of grapefruit and felt as though they had been smashed with the same hammer as the head of my penis a month earlier. I had a temp of 106 and was going into convulsions when my wife finally forced them to admit me. I ended up being life-flighted to U of U where they finally got me stabilized, but my testicles remained the size of large oranges for months. Every male doctor that saw me instantly said "give him the strongest pain killer we have" whereas every female doctor would try to cut me back to tylenol. Obviously they never had testicles and knew nothing of the pain injuries to them can cause.
I am fine now, my junk works perfectly, well at least the part that makes it stiff, but I will never be able to have children which at my age is not something I was too worried about in the first place.
deprogrammer
Sounds like you work for a real ballbuster.
Violent wanking and violent sex (like being ridden by a fat woman) bring out the worst genital injuries...
If you injure your genitals, get some one to kiss it so it gets better...
Then there's the story about the Siamese twins joined at the crotch who were fighting over whose turn it was...
I keep stepping on mine when I don't wear my harness. :o)
Real short legs ;-)
I love the 24 to 3 thumbs up score on these!
Well, ain't that a kick in the nuts.
AGGIE PRIDE?????
Ouch!!
It has been my practices to keep any and all foreign materials away from those delicate areas of my body.
A Gerbil, really people, that is truely sick, was it alive?
yes, but it killed itself shortly afterwards
No, Lemmiwinks lived on after his tour of Mr. Slave's interior.
Thanks, Shot a man in Reno. Ill be singing the lemmiwinks song in my head for the rest of the day.
Wow, these comments are lame! If you really want some unbelievable genital abuse stories... find a friend willing to share their stories... who may have worked as a hospital emergency room urologist. You too will realize that many creative and perverted sexual deviants exist in this world by the bunches!!!
Over thirty years ago a business associate (who's wife was a nurse) told me that many of the accident reports citing "internal injuries" were actually in reference to damage to the bladder. The problem is basic physics - momentum. A ball of fluid in the bladder tends to stay in motion when a vehicle stops suddenly as in a crash. A simple safety precaution is to take a minute to empty your bladder before getting in your car to go home, to the store, on a trip, whatever.
@ 69swan Believe it or not we we're taught that exact safety precaution in the police academy. Many police officers are injured in exactly this fashion.
Be a squirrel and protect your nuts!!
I work in radiology and have seen more than I care to talk about. But the one I remember most was the 12 year old boy that put a light up stick into his penis. He wanted it to glow like rudolph for christmas!!
When I was learning how to ride a bike I ran into a street light broke the cross bar, the scream well dogs are still barking. Everything works find and no mom didn't kiss the boo boo. Brother was laughing his azz off. this was the 60's cross bars were metal.
Whose Dick Hertz?
The person who lives next to Mi Wang!
Actually had a substitute teacher in senior English in high school who sent around an attendance sheet for everyone to sign so he didn't have to take roll call. I stuffed Dick Hertz in the middle of the sheet, needless to say he was upset that he had to do a roll call. He really wasn't happy after he asked who's Dick Hertz about 10 times before he caught on.
That's a lot of bollocks!
Sure they are not humping the wrong thing? :D
Wow, big surprise it's mostly young people, and guys more than gals. Complete shocker.
We do indeed need to waste...err...spend some more dollars on further "study."
I knew a guy who had to have his crank removed and replaced it with an elephant's trunk but it kept shoving hay up his ass.
I notice alan2014309 is a right wing nut. Really?
Ouch!