From the web: What Exactly Happens When You Pop a Testicle and How to Fix It

Here's another wonderful article that I found on the web. It's called What Exactly Happens When You Pop a Testicle and How to Fix It. What is it about, you ask? Well, here are the author's own words:

With equal parts morbid curiosity and dedication to public service journalism we called a genital urological surgeon to find out what happens when you pop a ball.

Yup. And that mix of morbid curiosity and dedication to public service journalism makes this article to awesome.

Here are some excerpts:

Every man with at least one functional ball has taken a hit to the junk, a jab to the jock, a plundering of the family jewels. The universal pain and hilarity of the situation has kept America's Funniest Home Videos in business for over 25 years. Balls are more durable than you might think, and most of the time a little sack tap results in nothing more than a few moments of stomach-churning pain.

But sometimes, when the planets align and a nut is knocked hard enough or in just the right spot, it can rupture. What then? How do you put a ball back together after it breaks and will it ever be the same? Who are the faceless heroes who operate on man's most sensitive (and perhaps important) organ? Dr. Simon McRae, a genital urological and oncological surgeon at St. Vincent's Hospital in Western Massachusetts, is one of those heroes. With equal parts morbid curiosity and dedication to public service journalism we called Dr. McRae up to find out what happens when you pop a ball and how to fix it.

The author had me at the first question:

VICE: What is the worst ball injury you've ever seen?
Dr. Simon McRae: I can remember one guy was playing hockey and got whacked with a puck in that area and it ruptured his testicle. We did the usual diagnostic evaluation and we decided he needed surgery. That wasn't the worst, though, because he was fine. You couldn't even tell a couple of weeks later that it had happened.

OK, so what was the worst?
There was a cop who had a gun in his pocket. He fired the gun and the rebound from the butt of the gun crushed his testicle between the gun and his pubic bone and it popped a bit. His situation was messier because it was a more complicated rupture than the guy with the hockey puck. He probably lost half the volume of his testicle, so that was disconcerting for him because he was a macho guy.

Read the full article at VICE.com