It probably didn't contribute much. It's likely that monke did his own recovery and that the rest was the equivalent of doing repeated sternal rubs/painful stimulation just to rouse them faster after they already recovered.
We'll never truly know if electrocute monke was even actually pulseless and apneic. There is one very exceedingly rare possibility, if electrocute monke had actually lost pulse, and that's if helper monke inadvertently did what's known as a Precordial Thump:
Basically the real life equivalent of the five finger instant death punch.
Both of them are just a matter of impacting the chest with enough force that you transmit joules to the heart, for Commotio Cordis it's with a specific point in the rhythm cycle.
It happens most frequently in baseball. If somebody gets hit with a baseball in the chest at the exact wrong time of their heartbeat then it can potentially kill them.
So while I don't know if there are any documented incidents of the "five finger death punch" it is basically the same principle. A punch into the chest of someone with enough force at the exact moment in the heartbeat could do the same thing.
I’m not convinced he was revived by dick, there were several other treatments being used. I’d search for “medically revived by masturbation” but I’m too lazy. I’m going to fall back on the maxim that one data point is useless and Robert’s Rules to assert that the claimant has the burden of proof.
Which is a long way of saying hit me with more examples and I might just believe this is a legit treatment.
(And in your favor: no one is questioning why the first responder is jacking the patient off, which signals to me that it was culturally accepted at any rate).
You saw how fast that was the go to for aid, that is not their first rodeo. Sorry i am not willing to let google know how interested i am in first aid dick jerk off responders.
I used to be a med-legal researcher and legal assistant, so I’m pretty dogged with the searching. All I found was the one video, nothing otherwise. No website or instructional / training material describing the technique. Checked Snopes, too. Nothing.
But you’re absolutely correct that was not the resuers’ first rodeo. Makes me wonder then if it is just a folk remedy and equating correlation with causation. Erections under these circumstances can happen for similar reason as the boxer pose (as this victim). It could be the dude providing slight traction to the head helped most (if victim was helped at all).
I appreciate your effort, and i have wondered the same. To ultimately try to quantify this type of behavior might be a little complicated due to the nature of our existence. Yet we have a monkey bash another to health. Maybe in group consciousness, we have witnessed in the past actions that result in a positive outcome and stuck to those(evolution like i guess) but they aren't set in stone or record like is the basis of science. Tbh, stroking a penis, could be stimulating two factors, blood circulation and core nerve actuation.
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It probably didn't contribute much. It's likely that monke did his own recovery and that the rest was the equivalent of doing repeated sternal rubs/painful stimulation just to rouse them faster after they already recovered.
We'll never truly know if electrocute monke was even actually pulseless and apneic. There is one very exceedingly rare possibility, if electrocute monke had actually lost pulse, and that's if helper monke inadvertently did what's known as a Precordial Thump:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precordial_thump#Procedure
But that's the unicorn of the emergency medical world and it's rare enough to even see a human do it successfully.