Can you break your kneecap?
The kneecap (the patella) is a triangular bone at the front of the knee. Several tendons and ligaments connect to the kneecap, including ones attached to the upper leg (femur) and lower leg (tibia) bones. Though the kneecap is not needed for walking or bending your leg, it makes your muscles more efficient and absorbs much of the stress between the upper and lower portions of the leg. Climbing stairs and squatting can put up to seven times your normal body weight on the kneecap and the joint behind it. The kneecap can fracture in many ways: partially or completely or into only a few or into many pieces. Sometimes when the kneecap is fractured, the ligaments or tendons attached to it can be sprained or torn. Symptoms of a Kneecap Fracture Symptoms may include: Severe pain in and around the kneecap Swelling Pain when moving the knee in both directions Difficulty extending the leg or doing a straight-leg raise A deformed appearance of the knee due to the fractured pieces Tenderness when pressing on the kneecap
How to break your knee!?
Umm... Why would you want to do that??? If you intentionally try to break your knee it's actually a lot harder to do and if you do find a way to do it, it's actually going to probably hurt a lot more than unintentionally breaking it. If your trying to get out of something, don't be a wuss...Just do it!
How do you break your knee cap without a hammer?
I fell down the stairs about 3 days ago now, and my knee is slightly swollen and bruised, I went to the doctor today and he said to get a X-Ray and an MRI, also I'm not allowed to walk. I really need to break it because my mum won't get me crutches until she's 100% sure it's broken. PLEASE help me.
What does "Bend the knee" mean?
I am reading a novel and there is a part in it about how all men will bend their knee to God at the end of the world. What does "bend their knee" mean I feel like it means to like break your leg why would you hurt your knee in front of God O.o thanks.
How do I break my ankle?
If you want to break your ankle easily and quickly, you’ll probably need some kind of blunt force trauma to your ankle resulting in a break. It will probably be pretty tricky to break your own ankle however because your brain prevents you from wanting to injure yourself usually. It’s the whole thing where we could technically bite off our own pinkie fingers but our brain doesn’t allow us to. It would take a hell of a lot of balls to purposely break your own ankle, knowing how much incredible pain you will be in. If you are looking to break it to get out of something such as sports or an event, you might as well save yourself the actual pain of breaking your ankle, and just buy some type of brace or casting material off of amazon and fake it. No one is going to make you take off your brace to see your “broken ankle”. Technically breaking your own ankle would probably considered self-harm, and is generally stupid, but I suppose you could take a hammer or such to your ankle. The hammer with be fast and easy, but very very painful. It will be more than just a broken bone, but busted blood vessels probably, swelling, and bruising. Soft tissue complications associated with the broken ankle can cause even further problems, not to mention the nighmare you will go through if you severely damage tendons and such. Depending on the severity, you may even need surgery, or have your foot amputated. There really is no GOOD reason to break your own ankle, and you could probably find a better alternative. Here is the true point of my writing:What can or will happen if you break your own ankleWill hurt like hellWill have severe swelling and bruisingWill have to keep your foot elevated for like everWill look dumb for breaking your own ankleCan result in surgeryCan result in amputaionCan result in a whole series of complicationWill result in thousands of dollars worth of medical expenses (BREAKING AN ANKLE AINT CHEAP)You WILL regret it:)
What are ways to break your knee not on purpose...?
k so before you start thinking im a phsyco path listen. So i broke my knee in an embarasing way and my friends keep asking well not really my friends but they keep asking how'd you break it. and they came to the conclusion i broke it on purpose please dont say tell em the truth if u dont ill tell how i broke it.
What is the best way to break a leg?
Indeed if your life depended on it, the fibula would be the best as a sacrificial lamb. Agree with Jean Marion there, as long as your tormentor lets you get away with it. The entire affair smells of the Saw series of movies somehow...Given that the fibula is to be broken, at short notice and little instrumentation, how to go about it? Here's a WikiHow(ish) step by step guide:Get a hammer or any heavy blunt instrument of suitable size available.Lie on the side with the chosen leg to be broken upwards. If that choice is given to you, choose the side of your dominant hand i.e. right side up for right handers.Feel the bony prominence on the outer part of your ankle. This is the lower end of the fibula. Break it here and your ankle becomes unstable. So choose a point in line with the prominence around 15 cams above it, at least 10 cms. Going too much further up can injure the common peroneal nerve and cause a 'foot drop'.Lift the 'hammer' and take it all the way back as your shoulder allows you to.Take a deep breath. Do not hold it. Holding breath for too long can knock you out.Remember ye Gods and let it swing.Thump.You should hear, or at least feel, a cracking sound. If not, kindly repeat till you do. Possible side effects include, but are not limited to, a large weal, breaking the other leg and shoulder dislocation.All said, the safest way to 'break a leg' seems to be to join the theatre and do a cracking job on stage. 'Break a leg' is a theatrical idiom for wishing good luck!
Is it better to keep knees at 90 degrees or "break parallel" when doing squats?
This is the eternal bone of contention. Like contemplating the true meaning of life, there will always be new philosophers, as well as old ones, spending countless hours speculating, and recruiting followers to their newfound belief system. Having gotten this out of the way, it is not UNHEALTHY to break parallel for the knees, or for the back, muscles etc. I always go below parallel, because, quite frankly, you want that full range of motion for maximal muscle growth. Most people who do not go deep in squats, don't because they need to squat lighter weight for quite a while until the ignored muscles become stronger. And many people are far too concerned with numbers. I can safely squat 315 below parallel, for example, but to keep myself above that, we could add 30% more weight easily. it is right at that parallel point that people become scared they won't be able to get back up, and risk "embarrassment" of not bringing the weight back up. you don't have to go "ass to grass" but you can. But you SHOULD go below parallel unless you have pre existing injurious reasons not to. your muscles will grow better, and you will need to lower the weight at first, but not forever.
What is the fastest and least painful way to break your ankle?
Realize this: Even if you could break your leg "painlessly", unless you are willing to spend the next 6-8 weeks in a drug induced stupor, risking addiction to highly addictive opiates (which no doctor is going to allow, btw), you recovery will be long and painful. Some insurance policies will not cover self-inflicted injuries, so be ready to shell out some serious bucks, upwards of tens of thousands of dollars. Now, if you're still hell bent on doing this stupid thing:Find an equally stupid friendGet really, really, drunk, and I mean BLIND drunk. The easiest leg bone to break (and "easiest" is a ridiculously relative term!) will be the tibia; that's the large bone that extends from the knee to the ankle at the front of your leg: the shin bone. It is virtually unprotected, but by a thin layer of skin and muscle, but that doesn't mean it will be "easy" to break, just that you won't have to bother smashing through a mass of muscle tissue like with the fibula or the femur. FYI, the tibia is about as big as the femur, it's just a bit less unprotected, so be prepared for some serious trauma.Place your stupid leg between two sturdy supports, one under the knee, one under the heel/ankle/lower leg. Better make sure your "friend" is drunk, too. This is going to be really gross. Have your stupid friend take an aluminum baseball bat and whack the very center of the tibia with it. As hard as he can. Mind you, this bone is extremely hard, so you may have to do it more than once. This will not only cause trauma to your leg, but to your now very inebriated friend. But hey, you asked. He may well want to hit you in the face with said aluminum baseball bat by the time you're done.Have your drunk friend call an ambulance or a cab (don't want that idiot driving), to take you to the hospital where you can tell them your stupid made up story of how you broke your leg. ; >)There are, perhaps, more complicated ways to do this: garage doors, cars, shotguns, bowling balls, etc., but they all pose sort of "Rube Goldberg" type scenarios that are just too complicated to set up for an idiot who wants to break his own leg. Now that that's out of the way, WHAT IN GOD'S NAME ARE YOU ASKING THIS IDIOTIC QUESTION FOR?
What is the meaning and origin of phrase "break a leg" when it is used by actors?
What is the meaning and origin of phrase "break a leg" when it is used by actors?No one is entirely sure, and there are competing theories that Wikipedia does a good job of summarising.Essentially, though, the main theories are:Theatre people are very superstitious, and to wish someone ‘luck’ might in itself be bad luck! So you wish them something bad instead. (Not entirely convinced by this one)A mix up between the Yiddish for ‘success and blessings’ which sounds a lot like the German for ‘neck and leg break’. (Lots of Jews working in the theatre!)It’s to do with bowing after the performance - ‘break a leg’ was an archaic term for bowing or curtseying, so the more times you were doing that, clearly the more the audience was applauding.A ‘leg’ is also a side curtain on a stage. If you ‘broke a leg’ it might mean that you made it on stage (and therefore got paid), or it could mean that you were called on stage to take a bow.Here’s the Wikipedia link: Break a leg