Doctor Reacts To Destructive TikToks

TikTok is home to some highly entertaining stunts. While they may be fun to watch, they are often dangerous, with people people their lives in serious jeopardy. You should absolutely never attempt any of these stunts, and today I would like to tell you why. We look at gymnastics and gym fails, neck injuries, water skiing, scooter flips from nitro circus, paintball welts, bodybuilders, bike tricks, baseball accidents, wild pitches, urban exploration, Felix Baumgartner, skateboarding off a bridge, benching the bench, ACL injuries, shoulder dislocations, concussions, field goals, football, flipping off the swing, cliff diving, beard burn, eating ants, ganglion cysts, and Kim Quindlen's personality tests.

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[jesicad.]

I hurt myself pretty badly jumping off a cliff into water. I watched several people do it and figured I could too. My form was perfect... until I freaked out because it felt like I had been falling forever. Apparently my panic occurred right before I hit the water and I had leaned backwards, landing square on my back. Someone dove in after me because they realized I was probably in trouble and they were right. The impact completely stunned me. I couldn't move or breathe or anything. They pulled me to the surface and helped me to shore. I was bleeding from lacerations on my back from the sheer force of hitting the water from that height and the bruising was extensive. All I could think while laying on the shore trying to breathe was that I finally had an answer for my parents... if everyone else jumped off a cliff, I would too.

[thenerdytiger]

0:39 she had spotters if you look you can see that the larger landing mat got moved so that her whole body would land on it rather than only the lower part of the body. In bar gymnastics this is how spotting goes there is not usually a spotter right next to the bar because if they try to directly catch someone who has this much momentum the spotters would almost certainly get injured aswell then you have 2 injured people to deal with

[funnyname]

0:39
Doctor mike: WHERES THE SPOTTER?

The spotter who shoved the mat in place for her to land/fall on:

[momyea]

We just not going to talk about how athletic that 70 year old man was?

[rishinimunasinghe]

I really appreciate those doctors who feel other's pain and who see their patients as humans(at least as living things) not as objects or something like that. Therefore so much respect for Dr. Mikhail Varshavski

[avapelkey]

As a water skiier I can confirm, bare foot skiing hurts soooo bad and the whipeouts hurt worse.. thanks for the good content mike :D
EDIT: ty for 1.5k guys :D

[LexNonARegeEstViolanda]

I love how, as a non-doctor, I find these funny, but Doctor Mike looks legitimately concerned

[xRutek]

4:00 Poor woman got hit in face by the ball.

Dr Mike:think about the toe🥺

[GeneseesQuihui]

When you said “think about the toe, ” you made me remember the time Viggo Mortensen was filming a scene in LOTR, where he kicked a helmet so many times on set that he broke his toe. The scene that appears in the series is him screaming from pain.

[joceelizabethh]

My dad did what this guy did at 6:47 and he shattered his vertebrae and was in the hospital for two weeks. To this day he has screws in his back. Be safe people.

[transformersmax.]

Bro really has a sense of medical humor

[danielleerowe]

For the gymnast in the second video. You’re not allowed to have a coach spot at a competition, it’s a serious deduction. As well as most (99%) of coaches won’t allow a gymnast to compete a skill they cannot consistently do. That’s also why they have a safety mat ready to push in, to make it just a bit safer.

[MidRunner]

My mother and step-father thought I had a ganglion cyst for the longest time, they'd try to break it by my smashing books against my hand, and my step-father once actually tried to take a needle to me. Luckily my friend at the time's uncle, who is a doctor, took a look at it and realized pretty quick that it was a tumor and I got it surgically removed.

[geofff.]

Fun historical note: ganglion cysts are also still called Bible cysts because the most common way to fix them before surgery or hypodermic needles were common was to whack them with a large heavy book. The most common large heavy book in a given home at the time? That's right: the Bible.

[gabchapman]

I MISS HIS HAIR!!!😭😆 but Dr bro had to do what he had to do to be that boxing 🥊 champion 🥇⭐️ love the vids thank you for the amazing and educational info. I’ve learned to much

[roslyhernandez]

Wait never noticed his small head until now that he has short hair lol

Edit: which isn’t a bad thing he is still hot and beautiful personality and smart lol he just always mentions a small head lmao

[overusedperson]

doctor mike, my brother, sister and me all like your channel! this youtube channel is basically the only thing i have in common with them! glad its you

[hollyebanks]

Every time you make these videos it makes my day! Thank you so much for your effort especially since your a doctor….
I mean that’s impressive, thanks for your amazing informational, entertaining videos they are amazing!!!! Also for the editor the videos are edited perfectly 🤍🤍🐬

[jishanborno]

I've torn my ACL about a month back and let me tell you one thing, "It's an injury you don't want if you like sports". With proper treatment, a torn ACL can heal in 4-5 months(that's an estimate btw) maybe more depending on how badly it was torn and how much you're treating it. My advice to prevent any ACL injury is to do warm-ups before playing certain sports. Without doing warm-ups, your body doesn't understand what to do in certain situations and that can lead to injuries like a torn ACL.

[george.]

a few weeks ago i was skateboarding with my friend and i tried something i’d never done before. the board flew out from under me and i landed on my shoulder. i broke my collarbone and got a mild concussion. there’s a lesson to be learned here, kids: never take risks.


edit: y'all in the commments are taking this way too seriously. i didn't *actually* mean that. ever heard of sarcasm?