Orthopods are sly..

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I was in the ortho room today, pretty cool attending with an ortho resident.

They are taking out a "something" (can't get too technical you understand) and have the guys arm over his chest from the supine position - Imagine one of your arms in a sling with elbow sticking up in the air and you have an idea. Anyway, they are sewing up multiple layers on the elbow itself and the attending keeps shifting the arm and allow the resident to sew up the elbow from different needed angles.

I look over the drapes at one point and say:

DUDE!, You got his arm in a kumora!!!! He can't tap man, he's paralyzed!!!!

Surgeon gives me with the strangest look ever and bursts out laughing. First off, he knows what I'm even talking about. Second, the man is cool in the first place.

He went on to say that his kid watches MMA and is getting just big enough that (the child) is trying to pull these moves on his pop during wrestling matches on the living room floor. Hilarious.

Then he said he has seen a definite increase in elbow hyperextension injuries among teenage kids in the office for doing impressions of the "arm bar" as seen in MMA matches. Kids have no idea of how vulnerable your elbow is in that position.

I told him from now on I was watching him. No practicing MMA moves on my paralyzed and unconscious patients!..

Now let's see who knows what the heck I'm talking about.

I'm with you man, I love that spike has started showing all these old UFC matches that I never got to watch before. I just saw the royce gracie fights the other day and now I have to see where they may be showing his match against matt hughes so I can see that too. I'm glad they didn't show that stuff when I was in college, because I would have inevitably decided after several beers that I should be in the UFC.

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hey RN

Im on board, been doing karate and competition for 12 yrs ;) ive had ALOT of injuries! At 32 im an "old man" when i goto vegas for the yearly seminar/competitions! sad... im falling apart!

I sincerely hope Matt Hughes mops the floor with this guy. If you can't catch the show on PPV, there is a certain male oriented drinking establishment that has started showing these PPV fights live.

We were in Philadelphia for Valley Review and caught one up there, seeing how we were out-of-town and the we couldn't purchase the fight over the hotel TV. Check around. PM me if you don't know which establishment that I'm talking about. I ain't saying on this thread.

PPV in this instance stands for Pay-Per-View, not Positive Pressure Ventilation.

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We bought the PPV for the last UFC (i cant believe that tito ortiz won) and we already bought the one for next month with gracie. I want to see gracie get the crap kicked out of him now that the rules dont favor ground fighters. We used to goto bars but then, yer too drunk to drive home. So now we have a projector thing and do it on the side of my buddies house while we BBQ and get hammered.

Good Times!

I sincerely hope Matt Hughes mops the floor with this guy. If you can't catch the show on PPV, there is a certain male oriented drinking establishment that has started showing these PPV fights live.

We were in Philadelphia for Valley Review and caught one up there, seeing how we were out-of-town and the we couldn't purchase the fight over the hotel TV. Check around. PM me if you don't know which establishment that I'm talking about. I ain't saying on this thread.

PPV in this instance stands for Pay-Per-View, not Positive Pressure Ventilation.

We bought the PPV for the last UFC (i cant believe that tito ortiz won) and we already bought the one for next month with gracie. I want to see gracie get the crap kicked out of him now that the rules dont favor ground fighters. We used to goto bars but then, yer too drunk to drive home. So now we have a projector thing and do it on the side of my buddies house while we BBQ and get hammered.

Good Times!

Dude where do you live? I smell a Road Trip brewing..

Nevermind...AZ is too far. I'm on a student budget..

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heheh

yah im probably a bit of a drive from you. On the otherhand, its 80-90 degrees in the days now, perfect weather for passing out on your buddies back yard lawn!

We bought the PPV for the last UFC (i cant believe that tito ortiz won) and we already bought the one for next month with gracie. I want to see gracie get the crap kicked out of him now that the rules dont favor ground fighters. We used to goto bars but then, yer too drunk to drive home. So now we have a projector thing and do it on the side of my buddies house while we BBQ and get hammered.

Good Times!

Awesome........ya know.....I'm a little closer than rn29654324843568. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

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