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Dr. Robert Whitfield demonstrates removing turf rubber fragments embedded in an athlete's foot. The body walls off foreign material like a splinter, and local anesthesia allows safe extraction of the pieces in this sports medicine procedure.
Dr. Robert Whitfield demonstrates removing turf rubber fragments embedded in an athlete's foot. The body walls off foreign material like a splinter, and local anesthesia allows safe extraction of the pieces in this sports medicine procedure.
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.
