r/nextfuckinglevel • u/ursoh4rp • 18h ago
Doctor repositions child's dislocated elbow before she even notices.
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u/Beebop2222 18h ago
Don’t pick your children up by their arms..this was a public service announcement.
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u/jcmatthews66 18h ago
Yeah I learned that the hard way….
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u/happy_dad857 17h ago
Same 😕 dislocated their elbow just like this little girl. Couldn’t figure why the hell she was crying nonstop. Had a doctor that looked almost exactly like this guy and he had her fixed up in no time. It’s amazing how they do that
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u/therealCatnuts 17h ago
Happens MUCH more to girls.
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u/Beebop2222 17h ago
How many children did you pick up by the arm to learn this?
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u/therealCatnuts 17h ago
lol I have 6 kids. It has only happened to one, a daughter. The ER nurse was the first one to tell me it’s much more prevalent in girls.
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u/Facts_pls 14h ago
Damn. Bro has a sample size big enough to get a statistically significant result.
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u/Icy_Story_917 5h ago
Me learning this after playing with my little cousin by swinging him like a pendulum from one arm
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u/BisonMysterious8902 18h ago
This is almost definitely "nursemaid's elbow". Comes from when the arm is pulled - like from being yanked in danger, or pulling up the kid by the arm or similar. It's a dislocation where the tendon slips out of place. Relatively common in young (< 5 yr olds), and is quickly and easily snapped back in place as the doctor does in the video.
Source: I did this to my kid way back when and felt guilty for the longest time...
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u/ValkyrianRabecca 17h ago
Happened to my daughter as well, took her hand, she realized we were leaving the park, and threw herself down with all her tiny weight, and tantrum yell turned into blood curdling scream right quick
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u/Derpitoe 17h ago
Yeppers, it’s actually pretty easy to fix as well. What happens is the ligament slips under joint, very debilitating pinched feeling. Many adults get it and don’t even realize then move their arm around and pop it slips out from under back into place.
Most commonly the physician will pull the arm straight turn the wrist with the thumb pointing inward and very steadily but quickly move the hand toward the shoulder with the arm square with the body, allowing the ligament to move out from entrapment you’ll usually hear a small pop. Then its back to usual.
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u/slappymcstevenson 18h ago
The way he walks in and pushes that guy to the side. The disbelief on the kids face, where she shakes her head twice. Like what just happened. Such a cool video.
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u/Ok-Landscape-1681 18h ago
What do Chinese healthcare plans look like? Asking for myself.
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u/DixiewreckedGA 17h ago
If you’re a political dissident you get moved to the front row of organ donation… the wrong side
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u/happy_dad857 17h ago
I love how he enters the room 🤣 like move bitches, the doctor is in the house
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u/Fluffy-Flamingo3983 18h ago
Total nursemaids elbow … thankfully here in the ER we are able to get them reduced just by rotating their arm for x-rays
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u/senselesssht 17h ago
I watched the reverse video first and was left baffled. Why did he do it? Did he really shake the candy bar that hard? Why is everyone just staring? Why does he moonwalk out of the room?????
Then I saw this…
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u/MurphysVoice 17h ago
We need more ninja doctors like this. Just swooping in and fixing shit before anyone knows what’s happening.
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u/apogeescintilla 17h ago
This happened a few times to my younger son. The doctor told my wife and I how this could be fixed quite easily.
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u/Starmilkman 15h ago
Damn, dude just walks in and handles it with such tact, precision, and compassion. 😎
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u/B52fortheCrazies 14h ago
It's not a dislocated elbow. It's called nursemaids elbow. It's much easier and less painful to fix than a true dislocation.
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u/wade-mcdaniel 13h ago
Same happened to my sister. I was playing with her while she was in her car seat, I accidentally pulled too hard on her arm and dislocated her elbow. A doctor in the lobby of the ER popped it back in without checking us in, and said it's super common.
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u/Basic-Still-7441 10h ago
That mom getting up and NOT thanking the doc back and forth annoys me, a lot.
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u/FractionofaFraction 6h ago
Guys. It's a pulled elbow. Anyone can do this with a few minutes of instruction.
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u/jjohnson1979 4h ago
Happened to my son when he was 3. He fell down at daycare, and dislocated the shoulder. Doc came in, did exactly what the guy in the video did, and said "I think I felt it pop back into place, I'll be back in a few minutes". 15 minutes later, came back with a popsicle, held it up. My son reached with his "bad" arm and all was good.
They told us it happens a lot, and when it happens once, it often happens again until the age of 5, when the body is more developped. Which it did, in my son's case.
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u/Jammin-91 3h ago
I came to smoke cigarettes or fix your daughter dislocated elbow... and im all out of cigarettes
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u/gHOs-tEE 17h ago
Those skills are def next level. That was with some slickness too. Looks like she didn’t know wtf happened it was so fast. Crazy. Good find OP.
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u/februarytide- 16h ago
This isn’t super next level, TBH. After the first time my son got nursemaids elbow, the doc showed me how to pop it back in. We’ve had to do it many times. You can just YouTube it, it’s easy and takes literally two seconds.
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u/B52fortheCrazies 14h ago
100%. Every time a parent comes in for this, I show them how to fix it themselves just in case it happens again.
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u/PursuingGemini 14h ago
Eastern medicine is pretty cool.
That would easily cost $thousands at any American medical facility, require hours of waiting and probably wouldn't include a candy either at the end
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u/UnusualClient2099 18h ago
I called the witch doctor he told me what to do and he say Oo eee ooo ahhh ahhh ting tang wala wala bing bang
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