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Dr. Robert Whitfield removes crumb-rubber particles from an athlete's foot blister that ruptured on artificial turf. The body walls off the foreign granules like a splinter. The video shows the actual extraction after the foot is numbed.
Dr. Robert Whitfield removes crumb-rubber particles from an athlete's foot blister that ruptured on artificial turf. The body walls off the foreign granules like a splinter. The video shows the actual extraction after the foot is numbed.
So, um, this is from a blister, and the blister broke, and then the crumb rubber from the turf got into the blister, and there you can see one of the pieces of crumb rubber. So these got embedded in the athlete's foot, and now we're just taking them out. It's healed in there, it's kind of like getting a splinter stuck. So your body will automatically try to wall this stuff off because it's not your own tissues, it's just foreign. So we've already numbed his foot, that's why this is something we can do. But there you can see more of the actual chrome rubber come out. This is the kind of fill that's on all the artificial turf fields.
