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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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There once was a man from el paso, his balls were made from el brasso, in stormy weather they clacked together and lightning shot out of his ass hole.
LMAO!!!
thank you for the limerick :) good one!
HAR! That's great, I'm crying...
If you think THAT'S funny,Johnny (and it is) did you know people sometimes get lightening struck in their nether regions because they were sitting on a toilet during a thunderstorm.Lightening travels through pipes :(
Didn't know that, thanks. will not take a dump when its lightning outside.
Unless I gotta go...come hell or high water. If you gotta go, you gotta go! It don't gotta be on a toilet, you will make it happen where ever you have to. That's just nature taking place, we have no choice sometimes. That's what we have socks for.......
Armageddon! ..the gerbil (You tube it, it is funny Audio )
Have a relative that lost a nut riding a go kart. This was 25 years ago back before they had all the padding. Hit from behind and forced into the steering column.
This article does make me think of a Gallagher joke.
"I've always felt safer on a girls bike. Does it seem fair to you that the one with the balls gets the one with the bar?'
Just go watch Youtube, watch any "fail compilation" and you'll see why. These people are Darwin award winners.
It only effects %.0005 of the population,still funny...
when i read the headline and clicked, i wondered if they'd address the issue of kink. they didn't. i'd like to know what percentage of those 16,000 were self inflicted and avoidable.
The article didn't mention what percentage of these injuries comes from being kicked in the crotch. Aside from all the self-inflicted stories posted here, I would bet being kicked is the most common cause. Kicking men in the crotch is treated like a joke on T.V.
Can you imagine if a TV show even implied violence against women as a joke?
Ouch and winces
I shouldn't laugh... but back in high school my friend and I were walking his dog... German Shep..... so the dog gets in a fight with the next door dog..... my friend makes the mistake of trying to kick the dogs apart.... bad move... one of the dogs bit him in the groin which also got his penis with some bite marks.... I never saw so much blood (seems that organ really likes to bleed).... we were only 1/2 block from the hospital emergency room... so he ran there (we were in our early teens).... so he needed some stitches.... For the next week he walked around school with his pants stuffed with wrapping (this was in the early 1960's)... Every time I think about this I still break up..... it looked much worse than it was..... only problem.. the ER Doc was a women.... we've never let him forget this one!!!! and it's been 50 years since this happened!!!!
This happened to my friend too back in high school.
So disheartening, I've sent many women to the doctor after they rode my huge love muscle...
Stitching up sides from laughter does not count. Aerosmith Dream On comes to mind.
^.... LOL...........But's it true, I'm hung like a horse.......
What horse? My little pony?
Doesn't matter how well your hung as long as you know what to do with your tong! I go All night long! I learned as long as she comes many times you can go happy!
I guess the moral to the story is...Watch Yer Crotch!
At least I can take solace in the fact that most of these injuries occur because of stupidity.
I am an R.N. and one night we had a guy come in with lots of string stuck in his manhood (not sure if I can say the other word). It took a while to get it out and boy was it painful for all of us!
Just watch Tosh and you will see idiots willingly putting their reproductive organs up for a laugh. Darwin would be proud.
I never could understand why a boy's bike has the centerbar, and a girl's bike doesn't. I mean it may look more ladylike not to have it, but it's a real danger to the family jewels. I think I'll push for a California proposition to outlaw them.
The 'girls' doesn't because women used to ride in skirts (long fairly narrow skirts, think Elvira Gulch in the Wizard of Oz), and you can't mount a bike with a center bar wearing a long narrow skirt (trust me, it doesn't go well). But once they figured out how to make a strong frame without the center bar, they should have just made them all the same. Makes no sense to have two different production lines, especially when the center bar serves no purpose. Why not just have bikes?
Girls use to ride with dresses it was not lady like to lift your leg over the cross bar or over the back of the seat. Same with riding horses. Side saddle.
And it's not very manlike to have to roll on the ground squealing because you racked yourself on the center bar!
With all the video clips of people getting hit with a ball, bat, or whatever in the crotch - 16,000 seems like a pretty low number....
It hurt just reading this article.
OMG! I have my hand covering my crotch as I read this! OUCH! I have button jeans to avoid the zipping issue. How come no mention is given to injuries due to sex?
I am LMAO - these comments are great. HA! Tosh.O is good about showing videos of this. Only experience I have is falling off my bike seat and smacking the lady parts into the crossbar. OUCH.
apoxy in the penis. true story.
The article didn't seem interesting, but the bloggers were funny. Glad I checked in.
My step-son is a paramedic and he mentioned that on one run they encountered a young man that damaged his intestinal tract by putting an air hose in the rectum. It turned out to be a serious injury that required a long hospital stay. In addition a young girl was killed a few years ago while sitting on a hot tub return line. The negative pressure pulled a bit of colon and intestines out the anus. This is why hot tub manufacturers are required to provide two return lines instead of one to minimize the suction force from the pump. Doctors and emergency room staff see a lot of weird stuff. Usually gay men that are doing weird stuff in many cases I was told.
"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.
What a great use of public money in a bankrupt country.
I love how they list injured areas as "pen is, testicles, bladder, kidneys...." and lady bits which we can't use the medical term for XD jeez.
Some good comments out there! But a good thing we can post anonymously. Because a bunch of you are...