Lacrosse Player Fractures Both Nuts After Getting Hit With A Shot. Both Balls. Fractured. Gross.
Source - A teenage lacrosse player fractured both his testicles and needed surgery after the ball hit him in the groin.
The 17-year-old was sent to the emergency room in the evening after being struck in the gonads during a match in which he wasn't wearing a protective guard.
Doctors recounting his injury in a case report revealed he 'immediately developed significant scrotal pain' after the ball hit him. In hospital, scans revealed the boy had 'fractured' both of his testicles, according to doctors from the Lahey Hospital and Medical Center in Burlington.
These are always the most horrifying stories. Just one of those "oh my god, that could have been me" type of stories that shatter you to your very core.
I don't think that I've worn a cup since maybe 6th or 7th grade. They're just not comfortable in the slightest. Even when brands started to make the "performance boxers" that the cup slides right in to instead of making you wear an actual jockstrap, the cup was always just super awkward down there. So whether it was hockey or lacrosse, I'd always just throw a hand over my nuts whenever anybody wound up to take a shot near me. I've been fortunate through my 27 years of living right now where I've never taken a shot to the dick and balls before, but this is something that could happen to just about anyone.
Which is why we need to figure out a way to protect the nads without having to rely on a cup. Maybe someone could throw a kevlar patch over the dick on your shorts? Or just bullet proof shorts all the way around, really. If they can make jeans stretchy these days then I'm sure that they can come up with a way to make kevlar stretchy as well. That way you get ultimate comfort while also receiving ultimate protection. It's just that I don't think that someone should have to get both of their nuts fractured in order for us, as a society, to come up with a solution here. This is already two balls too many and I can't even begin to imagine how many nuts have been crushed by shots before. The time is now, people. We need to figure out a way to protect your balls without having to wear a cup.
Sidenote: apparently this kid went back into the game after having both of his nads fractured. So yeah, anybody who says that lacrosse is for pussies is sorely mistaken. With the exception of hockey players, there's nobody tougher out there than a lacrosse player.