22-Year-Old Suffered A Seven-Week-Long Erection After A Mountain Bike Crash
What goes up must come down, unless you’re a mountain biker whose 'pecker' stays erect for so long (7 weeks to be precise) that medical intervention is necessary.
By Sadho Ram — 15 Jan 2014, 05:59 PM — Updated almost 11 years ago
The Irish Medical Journal reports a rather unusual case of a mountain biker who suffered (if that’s the word) a seven-week erection after landing on his top tube in a crash
The injury, which was reported in the January edition of the Irish Medical Journal, occurred after the man fell onto the crossbar of the bike.
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When he finally got around to seeking medical attention five weeks later, he told doctors he had an erection the entire time.
From the Irish Medical Journal:
A 22-year-old male presented with a five week history of ongoing priapism after he had sustained a blow to perineum when he fell on to the crossbar of his mountain bike.
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Perineal pain, swelling and bruising had settled within days but he had ongoing priapism with rigid erection. Examination revealed no signs of injury but the penis was erect.
mirror.co.ukIt was an anxious time for the patient, as it would be for any young man," Dr. Ronan Browne, a doctor at Dublin's Tallaght Hospital, where the man was treated, told the Irish Examiner
When doctors at Dublin's Tallaght Hospital tried to treat the perma-kickstand with "manual compression," it worked at first, but the erection returned almost instantly. A two-week long "pressure dressing" also failed.
dailymail.co.uk"Intercourse would have been ‘possible, but painful’ for the man during his ordeal," according to Dr Ronan Browne, Consultant Intervention radiologist at Tallaght Hospital.
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They were finally able to shift his penis into a lower gear using a process that involved inserting gel foam and platinum coils between an artery and a vein to alter the blood flow to the organ
"We were very happy with the outcome," Dr. Ronan Browne told the Irish Independent.
Browne noted that the procedure has a small risk of causing impotence, but not as high as the risk of other, more invasive procedures.
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