Are You Smarter Than a Scientist?

1:07:14a scientist? Our favorite game show. Oh, okay. With our resident PhD Krishna Chowdery. As we know the World Cup is about to end. Everyone is going to have to find something to entertain themselves. And to end the World Cup journey, we have our question this week is to name the 10 most common injuries in professional football. And I will just note that this is based on UEFA elite club UEFA elites uh clubs injury study which is a long-running European

1:07:55pro club uh data study that was first published in 2009 with newer findings from the 2021 and 2022 seasons including their latest ECIS update in the British Journal of Sports Medicine in 2023. So, this is not just us making up what it is. This is published data. I'm trying to give you time to think because now you are on the spot for the most common. >> Can I Can I Can I just name like the the specific body parts? >> You you I you're going to need to name a body part >> and potentially the type of

1:08:37>> thing that's happening with the body part because I initially made this as just body part only. But that was too easy. >> Okay. >> So, >> um All right. Uh what about like the uh Achilles tendon? >> Achilles tendon? >> Like the Achilles, you know, the >> your Achilles heel, >> the heel. Achilles heel. >> So, the question is, is Achilles heel an answer on the list? And unfortunately, >> no. >> Oh my god, I'm already That is going to be your first strike early in the game. early in the game. I don't This is the first time I don't even have one on there. [laughter] >> Okay. One actually. Okay. I'm pretty

1:09:19sure even though this is this is European football >> and American soccer, there should probably be concussion on here. No. >> Like people are getting hit with yellow cards like like Yeah, I would say. Okay, let's do concussion. Is concussion on the list? I really hate to say it. No, >> but it's not in the top 10 muscles. >> 10. Okay. >> In the most common. >> You were more directly correct with your first >> It's It's got to do with legs, huh? All right. >> I'm just I'm just going to say that

1:10:01this is >> Yeah. You know, hamstring. >> Okay. So, we're saying hamstring. >> Yeah. And we're going to be on the board with a hamstring strainer. Okay, I'll give you that. >> Okay, >> so very common. >> Very common. Yeah, I I think you've even mentioned it. >> Yes. At 24%. Uh it's it's kind of the meme. The celebrations have been made over people grabbing their hamstring. Yeah. Like after they score a goal, pretending they have a hamstring injury. >> Okay. >> So, we're on the board. >> Okay. So, we're cooking. You got You'll get some You'll get some here. >> Okay. Okay. Um, I'm going to need some lifelines though cuz I'm already on two. Okay. Um, okay. So, so you're going to have

1:10:41>> So, what what I would what I would say that what I would say here is think about, >> you know, football is a is a sport where we we run long distances, >> right? And there's a part of the body over those long distances that is very active in in being a in being a uh try not to be too specific here and being a facilitator of other parts of the lower body moving over long distances. >> Um no I'm thinking of the heart. >> No no no >> but that's that doesn't make sense. The lower Okay. the think about the the different component parts and something

1:11:23has to be a translator between >> Oh, like the knee. I don't know. I'm just saying. >> Okay. So, um, >> wait, what's in the knee? Oh, the ACLU. >> No, that's the [laughter] that's the that's the uh >> No, but you know what I mean. >> The thingy. The There are three letters there that are correct. >> The ACL. The ACL. >> Yeah, ACL tear. >> Okay, there we go. is our number 10 answer. >> And and a little bit lower than many would expect at only 2%. >> Okay. >> Um >> but like that's the knee. >> That's the knee. >> Okay. That's the knee. We're getting a tear in the knee. >> All right. We got hamstring, which is I think thighs. Now we got knees. No, there's got to be something in the foot.

1:12:04Like the guy the guy from Canada like broke his Didn't he break something because of the Qatari um red card? I I plead the fifth. That's got to be something. >> I plead the fifth. I would give I'll give you another lifeline which is I would stay in muscles more than bones >> more than bones. Okay. >> Only Christian Pulysick gets a micro fracture. [laughter] >> Well, that's actually not true. And so let me not that's not it may be in our answers. So that that's not true. But I think being more muscle oriented would be the correct approach here. I know there's people who are watching at home

1:12:44and they're like bing bing bong boom bing bing and [laughter] they're just going through this list. I've gotten actually probably six to eight of these injuries myself. >> Oh, really? >> Yeah. >> This is muscle um let's see, no hamstring is done. The cal calves calf strain. We will go ahead and put calf strain at number seven with 4%. We are on the board again. You're starting to >> Okay. >> You're starting to wind it. It's been a while since we've done it. I will note Christian is a biophysicist. Physicist cuz biohysicists people get annoyed about it. >> Yeah. But mostly like at the molecular level, not uh [laughter]

1:13:25>> molecular and cellular level, not at a full organism. Um no, calves, hamstrings, hamstring. Um >> you're on the board. You're on the board. >> ACLU is the There's got to be something with the foot. How about um like a No, I already said Achilles. That didn't work. Um again, think about soccer being a sport where we run a lot. >> Yeah. Okay. So, calves. What else? What is this thing called? The thigh. No, thigh muscle. The quad. Quads. Quad strain. We got it on the board. Number six. Quad strain with 5%. >> Okay. Now he's got Okay, I How many

1:14:06muscles [laughter] can I think of that are in the lower body? Um, [gasps] >> we're cooking. We're missing number two, three, four, five, eight, and nine. There's a lot of items on the board. Well, strange. Damn, I really thought concussion was going to be on here. Um, thankfully, we don't make contact with our heads that often. CTE is not a problem in the game of football. How about uh he No, I don't. Now I'm just blanking. I literally have no idea. Like I'm going to say heel. >> The heel. >> The the heel. >> The heel muscle. >> The heel muscle. Is it on the board for

1:14:48our last strike? Unfortunately, >> that is not on the board. >> Yeah, that's fair. >> This was a tough one. >> Yeah, I just shows you how little I know about the human body. was really trying to mostly rage bait the audience who are screaming the answers at home right now. Um, I kind of put you in a tough spot, but we're going to go through with the correct answers. And our number two spot >> was a contusion >> at 17% which you can get bruising, bone contusion. >> Okay, >> very common. Uh, number three is an injury I currently have after going to shout out to Ben Ben Fong's birthday

1:15:29party. Uh where I got a groin strain. >> Groin >> 9%. >> I could have I should have done groin. Yeah, >> very common. >> I know you said Achilles. It was close but not quite the ankle sprain. >> Oh, >> which was the answer we were looking for at 7%. >> Probably an Achilles in there. I >> I I don't think that's correct. >> No, >> I'm shocked we didn't get the the ankle sprain. Now, we talked about the ACLU u tear. >> Yes. [laughter] But we did not talk about the MCL sprain, which is another type of

1:16:10abbreviation sprain. I'm not a doctor. >> I know there's ACL, MCL. >> Everyone talks about it. It's so common. our number eight uh which is more in the direction of the former captain of the US men's national team Christian Pulysick with a fracture. >> Oh yeah. Okay. >> At 4%. And our last option I was trying to talk about the connector is a meniscus tear. >> Oh, I could have gotten that. >> Which which was I could have gotten that which was at 3%. Uh we did not get a [screaming] >> this episode. No, I didn't deserve that. >> It It was not It was not uh that Well,

1:16:51but we really do appreciate all of our listeners joining for another great installment of Are You Smarter Than a Scientist? I did put Krishna on the spot today and the stream deck worked perfectly with no interruptions. So, we are not rusty at all as we are now pushing an hour and 15 minutes for what was supposed to be a short episode. But as you know us, we like to yap on this show. And so we're going to go now into the last of our two stories which are going to be fun. It's going to be relaxing. We're going to wrap this up pretty quick. Here we are going into our England versus Norway World Cup goal

1:17:34ball camera cable. Hey Jude Bellingham story. Yes. So Norway versus England in the quarterfinals.