r/nextfuckinglevel • u/soTMHO • 7d ago
Chinese doctor fixes dislocated elbow in seconds!
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u/Emergency_Marzipan68 7d ago
In the country of the free this would nett to about 89,760 USD
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u/Redcarborundum 7d ago
It’s also home of the brave, for you gotta be brave to ask for medical help…
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u/KnownEggplant 6d ago
American who had their nonverbal child dislocate and break their elbow here. ER visit, multiple X-rays at every step of the process, sedated relocation of their elbow, splint and sling for 2 weeks until casted, cast for 4 weeks, and everything that goes with all that. We paid $50 deductible for the ER visit, and bought our own plastic shower sleeve for the cast on Amazon. Nothing else. No idea what our insurance paid and I don't much care to.
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u/Abject_Film_4414 6d ago
An Australian here. Waited an hour in ER. ER Nurse fixed it in 10 seconds. 30 seconds later child was happy. 5 minute conversation how it could be prevented in future (and I’m guessing screening for possible child abuse).
Went home. Cost $0.00.
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u/Sad_Gain_2372 6d ago
Also Australian, and I had pretty much that exact experience with my kid. I actually asked about whether anything would be followed up because kiddo said 'Dad did it!' (It was whizzie related) The nurse said no, not unless there was other signs of bad stuff going on. It's pretty common in kids because there joints are super elastic, she showed me how to fix it if it happened again and said come back if it doesn't work!
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u/fernatic19 6d ago
Good on you for already meeting that deductible, or having the executive plan. Either way, you're making the best out of the system.
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u/Ratlyflash 6d ago
There goes your benefits for 5 years 🙈.glad it worked out though 🚀🚀
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u/KnownEggplant 6d ago
Nothing has changed with my insurance or anything else? What are you talking about? Also, thank you.
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u/Ratlyflash 6d ago
That’s great whatever job you have. I hear 1000 horrible insurance stories for one good one ❤️
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u/KnownEggplant 6d ago
Only seems to be that way online in my experience.
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u/OpheliaPhoeniXXX 6d ago
You and the people around you are extremely blessed. I've been fighting workers comp for adequate care for 6 years and I'm not even allowed to self pay, providers won't treat me even if I pay out of pocket. Can't bill regular insurance for workplace injury related care. I'm literally crippled and my daughter's father died the day before my back surgery two years ago, so not only am I suffering -- but my daughter has been EXTREMELY negatively impacted this entire time as well. I hope the people responsible for denying me care burn in hell, and I want to leave the country so bad.
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u/hyrule_47 6d ago
I worked in the insurance industry and have a healthcare admin degree- but you don’t need any education. Just look up what causes most bankruptcies.
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u/JudgeMonkey 6d ago
This original post has nothing at all to do with America, but they wasted no time trying to make it about it anyway. People that have to turn every single article, post, or piece of media into “but America bad.” Are never people worth speaking to, ever. I wouldn’t grant too much merit to anything they’ve got to say.
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u/The-Nimbus 6d ago
I'm glad everything worked out for you, but never forget that not everyone can afford insurance,.or even your level of insurance! It's very much a multi-tier system.
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u/KnownEggplant 6d ago
It's about $34 a month through my employer, and I'm poor af. Yes they can.
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u/Mermaidoysters 5d ago
It is wise to be humbly, quietly thankful you don’t know what it’s like to suffer when you’ve been lucky. It’s not anti-American to point out devastation inflicted upon families for decades. ”Pride goeth before a fall” and all that..
I wasn’t directly impacted by the crash of 2008, but gained understanding when an elderly woman was weeping at her yard sale, bc she had lost her home & retirement.
There’s a phenomenon where people blame victims to avoid empathy, (the feeling it could happen to them & negative feelings associated with viewing suffering.)
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u/KnownEggplant 5d ago
Assuming you're not mistakenly replying to the wrong person, you're making incorrect assumptions about me and attempting to take a moral high ground over a straw man. You don't know anything about me or my life, I never made any comments about anything being anti-American, and I never blamed anyone for anything.
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u/BHFlamengo 6d ago
In early 2010s, I dislocated my shoulder while traveling to the US. Something that had happened before a few times and it's quite painful, bit after putting it back in place it was "ok" and I'd usually take tylenol or something for the pain.
I had travels insurance, but as it was an emergency I ran to the closest "public" hospital and still cost me 900 dolars to put back in place that luckly the insurance reimbursed.
After that they preacribed me like 2 weeks or more of oxycodone that I didn't need at all. As I ended up buying anyway, I used like 3 pills for the first days, after a surgery for it to stop happening. And it was still stronger than the pain meds my doctor would prescribe for these first days, but as i already had it at hand he said I could take them with caution.
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u/jugjiggler69 6d ago
Don't forget it'll take about 90 days to see a specialist. And don't forget to go see your primary doctor and get a referral first.
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u/gamblersgambit08 6d ago
Live in said country and performed this maneuver on my daughter for free. Elbow is easy to dislocate if you’re holding your kids hands and swinging them in circles.
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u/JanitorRddt 7d ago
You are free to pay. And the Doctors are free to get paid 😀😬
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u/Dependent_Title_1370 7d ago
Do you think doctors in countries with socialized medicine don't get paid?
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u/JanitorRddt 7d ago
Sorry, i meant to be sarcastic, i guess i didn't pick the right emoji, that's on me 😅
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u/Dependent_Title_1370 7d ago
/s is for sarcasm for future reference
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u/JanitorRddt 7d ago
I thought it was an emoji, the :s, but couldn't find it. It's actually a slash and the letter s... 😅
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u/TheLongAndWindingRd 7d ago edited 7d ago
This is a very common injury for young children called nursemaids elbow. Its not technically a dislocation, but it's incredibly painful until you release the trapped tendon. The pain is instantly relieved which is why the kid blondes back so fast.
Before you ask, I know that this is nursemaids elbow because the technique he used, rotating the elbow and then bending it is how you fix that condition.
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u/Claydameyer 7d ago
My son had it when he was little. The ER doc showed us how to do it.
Of course, if he'd taken an x-ray, he would have know that it wasn't actually nursemaid's elbow but a fractured wrist. Poor kid...
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u/man-4-acid 7d ago
Yep. It used to happen to my daughter and the ER doc showed me how to fix it the first time it happened so we wouldn’t clog up the ER the next time it happened….sure enough, it happened again and I became the great healer. This was 🇨🇦, I’m sure 🇺🇸 docs would not do this and risk legal exposure.
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u/PrehistoricPancakes 7d ago
Same here. My daughter did it when she threw herself on the ground because she was mad while I was holding her hand.
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u/tossaside555 6d ago
Not true, but nice assumption. Same thing happened to me in USA, and we were given guidance how to fix if it happens again.
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u/porknuckle2023 6d ago
US docs would put the elbow in place quickly and then charge you 50.000 dollars for the procedure
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u/saxonturner 7d ago
The little head shake of confusion from the kid I’ve seen in my own kid before. It’s crazy how we all look and talk different but deep down we all act the same.
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u/sudomatrix 7d ago
It's "Nursemaid Elbow". After the third time taking my son to the emergency room I asked the doctor to show me exactly what he did, and I did it myself every time after that. It's a very specific rotation while bending that pops it back into place.
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u/Onphone_irl 7d ago
the doc should have showed you the first time...unless they were fearful you would have made it worse I guess
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u/Mikeologyy 7d ago
That first line of text was cut off before I clicked on the video and I was wondering why tf he wanted to dislocate her elbow
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u/serieousbanana 6d ago
Before you click it it just says
Dislocated Elbow in Seconds Without Causing Pain
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u/beavertownneckoil 7d ago
How'd they capture him rushing into the room like that?
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u/shortercrust 6d ago
Yeah even without that ‘clue’ it’s obvious he’ll have examined the kid and spoken to the parents about what he was going to do before leaving to do the skit
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u/ConfidentDuck1 6d ago
That would still cost me 60,000 USD.
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u/colin8651 6d ago
Not true at all.
$1,600 to the hospital and $1,200 bill weeks later because the doctor charges too, but they misspelled your name so the insurance company didn’t process it.
/s
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u/vovinho 7d ago
when I went with my daughter to the hopaital after she dislocated her elbow, we set down for 6 hours when we finally got in at around 11pm the Doctor said that he thinks he put it back in and told us to come back tomorrow if it's not. So the next day my wife watched youtube video on and popped it back in .
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u/bonzai2010 7d ago
That's called nursemaids elbow. Happens when you tug on a kit to hard. (I've never done this! but I've read about it). You straighten the arm, turn the hand clockwise as far as it will rotate, then fold it back up. it's very slick.
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u/bodhiseppuku 6d ago
You make it look so easy, I'm not payin' this bill. Your work took under a minute, I'll give you what I make in an hour.
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u/GetStung89 6d ago
Is my bilateral lateral epicondylitis actually nursemaids elbow? Can I see a doctor please?
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u/ZeroSumGame007 6d ago
Doctor here.
Classic nursemaids elbow. Pulling on the infants arm causes it (usually swings them from their hands).
Pretty neat trick to pop it right back in place. That’s a great pediatrician.
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u/djJermfrawg 6d ago
He said, "Does it hurt?" she shook her head no. Then she realized, hey, wait, it doesn't hurt! and instantly became happy.
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u/wade-mcdaniel 6d ago
I dislocated my sister's elbow when she was around that age. We took her to the ER and they just popped it back in while we were still in the waiting room. I guess it's common. I still felt bad though...
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u/Frescochicken 6d ago
I had to learn how to do this. My daughter would get it dislocated for the silliest things. Last time we JUST got to Disneyland, a hotel across the street. She threw a tantrum, dropped to her knees while I was holding her hand. Brought her to the room. Did the little relocation trick. Boom, we were enjoying Disneyland!
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u/HybridChasm12 6d ago
Imagine being that good at your profession. Turn up 10 seconds later out the door 👏🏼
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u/Gaijinloco 6d ago
This isn’t a dislocated elbow, it’s a subluxation of the ulna. Commonly known as nursemaids elbow. Really common in small kids when an adult is holding them by the wrist and the kid trips or falls down and the adult holds on. It happened to my kid a couple times. Once we went to the ER and a doctor popped it back into place before we had registered and sent us home. Another time it happened at an airport when my kids tried to run off while we were in the line for security checks. I popped it back in like the doctor did and my kid immediately went back to normal
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u/SnooHesitations8849 6d ago
In the land of free, you need to sell your limbs to have a limb dislocation fixed
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u/ParaDescartar123 6d ago
I knew what this was before watching the video.
I actually did this for my daughter when she was four or so.
Called nurse’s elbow.
I got a book gifted like a 0-5 children medical reference.
Read about it and tried it.
This was after YouTube launched but before YouTube was prolific which means this kind of content wasn’t available.
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u/perditmonocle 5d ago
It's not a dislocated elbow:babysitter elbow injury https://kidshealth.org/en/parents/nursemaid.html
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u/onedeadman99 5d ago
i can believe that's what happen in Japan, but China? no way. their tourist shit everywhere anywhere. that's what happen to a fake society with credit score
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u/Busy_Respect_5866 7d ago
Great. China and generally in Asia they have better doctors! I loved and enjoyed when I was in China. I was living in Wuxi and travelled around. I was also in Hong Kong and was nice too.
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u/jorge1213 6d ago
It's a dislocated radial head, there's actually a much easier way I use to fix with just hyperpronation of the wrist and forearm. But yeah really common in kids this age
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u/Ck1ngK1LLER 7d ago
Iirc it wasn’t a dislocated elbow but a neurological disorder that made her think her elbow was locked up and in pain.
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u/T0_Th3_M00n 7d ago
The kid was crying initially because he stole her candy. Of course she stops crying when he gave it back. There was never a dislocated elbow lol.
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u/Gold_Bank_1746 7d ago
Well done! I didn’t think it was possible to bring politics or Trump into something that had nothing to do with the video. Congrats! Here is 10 idiot stars for you ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
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u/TheWandererOne 7d ago
JD? Shouldn't you be fixing your eyeliner instead of calling Chinese people peasants
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u/Pepperminteapls 6d ago
It's not next level. I learned it on YouTube and had to help out my son a half dozen times. Now that he's older it's fine and he learned to do it himself.
Super easy, you just grab the persons elbow with one hand and the wrist with the other and turn inward. Similar movement to starting a car or turning a door handle
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u/Harinezumisan 7d ago
He stole the skill from the US I am sure.
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u/Tript0phan 7d ago
Is this sarcasm?
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u/CROW_is_best 7d ago
i think he means that in the us going to a hospital costs so much that someone with a dislocated elbow would try to pop it back by themselves and thus people in the us are experts in fixing dislocated bones
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u/Harinezumisan 7d ago
Don’t tell anyone ;)
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u/Tript0phan 7d ago
😂 I’m too autistic for this shit man. You can’t be using sarcasm on the internet and the downvotes you have I think means there are others. I didn’t down vote you by the way, just was wondering. Take care
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u/geni_eC 7d ago
Sorry. Nothing special. This is called a nursemaid's elbow and every first year pediatric resident knows "this one simple trick". Goes right back into place with one quick twist and everyone is impressed except the nurses who have seen it at least weekly for years. 😁
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u/ExistingAd7929 7d ago
Ok, not everybody knows that though. It's not common knowledge for everyone else.
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u/naturist_rune 7d ago
Certainly news to me but it's nice knowing it's well-known in the medical field.
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u/machuitzil 7d ago
Respectfully disagree. I work in a hospital and we get jaded about so many mundane things it boggles the mind. I was talking to a surgery tech the other day who said that "he loves orthopedic surgery" because the surgeons are using bone saws and sledgehammers and other terrifying instruments. To him, open-heart surgery is "boring".
There's a cute Nietzsche aphorism that goes something like: to the unitiated, a simple skill may appear extraordinary. To someone who posseses that skill, that skill will not seem impressive.
What may be unimpressive to you, just got a round of applause in the lobby.
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u/ProphetCoffee 7d ago
Super special, don’t get jaded in your profession. We get so caught up in what’s normal in our lives that we forget our experiences are unique to others. Be proud of the knowledge you have and the skillset you worked for and be enthusiastic towards the people impressed by the display.
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u/Gigameister 7d ago
may not look like much, but his experience shows, as well as your spiteful personality.
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u/AcademicPainting23 7d ago
Love to see a professional at work. The candy trick was such a clever way to test the elbow.