Can...can someone with a medical background....GAH!!?

Question

So I was messing around with youtube and found this
Note: Normally, I wouldnt really care to advise about this but...if you have kids around its best they not see this. Its not dirty, but unless you let your kids watch things like surgery...yeah.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4NUmvvQj60

The retina moves...so how is what he does possible, and what can happen to him? It doesnt look safe at all.

Its just...aarrrghh!

Arent there supposed to be muscles on the side of your eye, or are they farther back then I thought?

Answer 1

Not all popped eyeballs come from head trauma. A few people can luxate their globes on purpose, and certain others get "spontaneous globe luxation" when their eyelids are pushed in the right way. Someone with shallow eye sockets or floppy eyelid syndrome, for example, might pop his eyeballs during a regular eye exam.

You can also trigger luxation while putting in your contact lenses, or with a particularly violent sneeze. You might even pop your eyeballs by trying to exhale while keeping your nose and mouth closed (i.e., performing the Valsalva maneuver)


Your eyeballs fall out of their sockets repeatedly, you might be a candidate for a lateral tarsorrhaphy—in which doctors sew up your eyelids part of the way to keep them from opening too wide. You could also learn the following technique for popping your eye back in yourself: First direct your gaze downward. Now pinch and pull your upper eyelid with the thumb and index finger of one hand.

Lay a finger from your other hand on the top part of your luxated eyeball, taking care to press only on the insensitive white part. While you continue to hold your eyelid up, push your eyeball gently down and back at the same time until it's part of the way in. Then try to look upwards; if everything goes right your eyeball will rotate under the upper lid and back into its socket.

Go the link below for more on this knack of eyeballs popping or globe luxation.: This guy holds the world of guiness record for eyeball popping trick. The video wasn't gross but the eyeball was getting irritated and inflammed and there was some sero-sanguinous drainage.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/unusual-tales/brazilian-sets-sights-on-world-record-for-eyeball-popping/2006/09/17/1158431572752.html


The orbit is surrounded by layers of soft, fatty tissue which protect the eye and enable it to turn easily. Three pairs of extraocular muscles regulate the motion of each eye: the medial & lateral rectus muscles, the superior & inferior rectus muscles, and the superior & inferior oblique muscles.

Answer 2

Gross. I don`t know how he does it, but it`s a great way to get a serious eye infection or damage the blood vessels behind the eyeball that could eventually lead to blindness. I too wish an ophthalmologist could view that and give an opinion. Maybe the doer would not think it so entertaining.

Answer 3

EYEPOPPING!

He really should be more careful, his eyes are already red and irritated.