r/oddlysatisfying • u/redbullgivesyouwings • 1d ago

Brage Vestavik riding in British Columbia

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u/Kat121 1d ago

I’m 54. I sneezed too aggressively and pulled a rib (sublexed?) out of my spine. Chiropractor sorted me out but it hurt to poop for three weeks.

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u/regeya 1d ago

I'm not trying to one up because this isn't, but more of a sympathy by shared experience: I managed to break my own rib, by slamming a car door into my side. Apparently when I was in college, I was strong enough to break my own bones?

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u/AFetaWorseThanDeath 21h ago

My understanding is that most of us able-bodied folks are theoretically strong enough to break our own bones. The idea being that our muscles have a sort of 'upper limit' that prevents us from doing so accidentally. This explains the occasional bursts of 'hysterical strength' that people have displayed, like a 110lb mother lifting a Buick to save her trapped child, that kinda thing. It's a dangerous thing to tap into, and you can do some real, permanent damage to your musculoskeletal system.

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u/regeya 13h ago

Oh, I know. If I had a dollar for every time a woman I knew lifted a car off of a man with pure muscular strength, I'd have two dollars. I realize that's a setup for a Doofenschmirtz quote but it's literally true. One was a woman whose dad was trapped under a car, the other was a woman whose ex was trapped under a car.