Doctor Reacts To Painful Baseball Injuries

I used to play football and suffered 15 concussions during my career. Back when I played they referred to concussions as "getting your bell rung" and coaches told us to get back on the field. I dealt with post concussion syndrome for years after and eventually suffered a stroke and developed epilepsy from the litany of traumatic brain injuries in my life. If Doctor Mike notices this I would love to talk to him about it.

The worst injuries are the ones you don’t see. Like I would love for a doctor to breakdown thoracic outlet syndrome and why it ended Harvey’s and strausburgs careers.

This is really well-done. Welcome to Baseball YouTube 💜

I was there for the Edwin Diaz injury. Everyone was celebrating and then became frozen because we were all confused with how the injury occurred...As a Dominican, even though we lost, it hurts to see a celebration cut short for the winning team.

Another one you could have included is Tyler Colvin. He was on third base and a broken bat came flying toward him and the sharp end of the bat hit him in the chest. It caused his lung to collapse and came very close to being a fatal injury.

I love it when Dr. Mike uses those big long medical terms and then explains them in a way that doesn't make me feel stupid.

My dad actually had a life-threatening baseball injury, but as a fan in the stands. The end result was part of his brain having to be removed and a titanium plate having to replace part of his skull. Pretty incredible that he even survived, apparently most people with this kind of injury either die or become vegetative.

My sophomore year of highschool baseball I was hit in the face by a linedrive while pitching, it broke my zygomatic and orbital bones and later I would need surgery. That was probably the worst day of my life. Took months for me to recover and get cleared but I am still playing baseball going into my junior year. It truly is an amazing sport that evokes a lot of passion, and while it is quite dangerous, an injury will never change the love we have for the game.

Mike's reactions give me pain and joy at the same time

As a baseball player I’m glad you covered these

Please react to AFL(Australian Football League) injuries, there are no pads or any protection and physical contact is fully allowed to anywhere except the head. Horrific injuries happen every few games.

That flight over the first baseman to land face first and then be ok was just bananas

Mike is right about the psychological and emotional standpoint of stepping back in front of 100 mile-an-hour pitches after being hit by one. When I got in my most serious car accident, you bet that I made sure to hop in the car and drive that same road as fast as I could get back on it. I didn't want the fear to set in too abundantly

Dave Dravecky had a pathological fracture as a result of cancer...he attempted to come back and pitch after the first break, but the following fracture was said to be explosive. He had to have his arm amputated.

I took a pretty nasty headbut while running downhill full speed in 1st grade. Broke my orbital, my eye was huge and swollen shut for over a month. That was a crazy time, my teacher watched over me like a hawk, not letting anyone near and walking with her hands on my shoulders in the hallways so I wouldn’t run into anything. Thank you Mrs. Burwell, I still remember you 18 years later❤️

My dad was an orthopedic surgeon and a sports medicine doctor. Sometimes he would watch sports and someone would hurt, and Dad would give his immediate thought as to the injury. My dad was also the doc for my high school's football team. My brother once played an entire quarter with a broken arm because he didn't want to tell my dad. My brother look ater went on and dislocated his shoulder in college. He did go back to football too early, and ended up jot being able to play football again. My brother (a different brother) is now an orthopedic surgeon and sports medicine doc. He's also now my high school's football doc. My dad is retired.

I would like to see Dr Mike do NHL injuries next, that would be something cool.

As a softball player, it’s almost scary seeing how it’s seemingly effortless to get such a severe injury. I completely severed the UCL in my left thumb while simply diving back to third base on a fake

My mom this May fully tore her achilles, walked home with it then the next day drove herself to the hospital 🤦‍♀️ the human body is an amazing thing, can do and endure so much and so little at the same time.

I was extremely active in multiple sports from elementary school up until my 20s. I suffered so many weird injuries, and had "unexplained" knee pain during my entire teens which, after watching this video, I now know what it was! But I think the weirdest injury I ever suffered was when I kicked a ball to defend the goal at the exact same moment as my teammate kicked to score a goal in practice together. We both fell down, the ball stayed in the same spot, and all the metatarsals in my foot were broken in half! Amazingly, I got up and just kept going and wasn't really even in any pain! I didn't even get an x-ray until a week later when my foot started bruising and my parents asked me if I dropped something on it. Will always be amazed that I had no pain, I broke other bones and those hurt a lot!