Having watched my college girlfriend pop her finger back into place and butterfly her own bleeding self so she could get back in the game…that’s accurate.
Ha! You kitchen too. Yeah, sorry about that. I’ve always heard using butterfly sutures called “butterfly-ing”. Don’t even think of the confusion it would cause.
Although…if you look at some of the tales folks are posting about their rugby injuries, I wouldn’t put it past someone to fillet a limb if it somehow meant they could get back in the game quicker.
Made a butterfly bandage. It presses the lips of the wound together, which is normally done in places where the skin is more loose, since those places have a hard time healing.
Butterfly bandages (which roughly resemble the outline of a butterfly) are needed to close narrow cuts without the use of stitches (in fact if you go long enough without stitches they can-t even put them in).
I was on a team while in the Army when I was stationed in Korea. Our flight surgeon was second row with me. A dude on our team accidentally went skull-to-skull with another dude and opened up a 1 inch by 1 inch flap on his scalp. The ref allowed a minute for Doc to assess the situation. Doc asked for 2 substitues which was granted and he and the dude ran to the aid station a couple hundred meters away.
In less than 10 minutes they both returned. Scalp flap dude had a big shaved spot on his head, a bandage, and enough tape to hold the bandage in place for the ref to let both of them back in.
After full time, the dude took his bandage off and showed us about 10 staples holding his skin together. Doc told us that he was trying to do a fast job, not a good job, and he only wanted to get both of them back in the game.
I have to get Tommy John surgery for my elbow at some point. Injured it in nationals in 2019 cause a girl landed on it when I reached my arm out diving trying to hold up her try. I made a long thick line of tape from my wrist to my bicep so that my arm couldn't continue to over extend and tear more so I could play the next 3 games left in the tournament. Caught a lot of shit for wrapping girls up with my elbow (left arm bent) and grabbing it around their legs with my right arm lol
Shelford made his Test debut for the All Blacks later that year against France in a 19–7 victory in Toulouse, and then was a notable victim of the infamous "Battle of Nantes" in the second Test. Roughly 20 minutes into the match, he was caught at the bottom of a rather aggressive ruck, and a French boot kicked his groin, ripping his scrotum and leaving one testicle hanging free. He also lost four teeth in the process. After discovering the injury to his scrotum, he calmly asked the physiotherapist to stitch up the tear and returned to the field before a blow to his head left him concussed.
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u/elspotto Aug 12 '24
Having watched my college girlfriend pop her finger back into place and butterfly her own bleeding self so she could get back in the game…that’s accurate.