TikTok's viral milk crate challenge can lead to 'potentially life-threatening injuries,' including broken bones and spinal cord damage, a doctor says

Medical experts have said the milk crate challenge could lead to life-threatening injuries.The "milk crate challenge" has swept social media after going viral on Facebook earlier this month.Medical experts have said the "dangerous" challenge could lead to "life-threatening" injuries.A social media trend can lead to broken bones, spinal cord injuries, and bleeding inside the skull, according to a medical expert and TikToker.

The trend involves stacking a number of milk crates in a pyramid in order to give it a stair-like shape. The "challenge" for the social media user is to walk across all the milk crates without them collapsing under the weight of the person and causing them to fall. Users' attempts are often live-streamed or filmed for social media platforms.

Dr Karan Rangarajan, a general surgeon based in the UK, also posts informational myth-busting videos to"The milk crate challenge [...] poses a high risk of exposing yourself to orthopedic injuries as well as injuries to the head and neck as a result of falling from heights onto the ground or the crates themselves which can puncture the skin," he said.

"Injuries can range from broken bones, ligament injuries and dislocations to potentially life-threatening ones such as spinal cord injuries or intracranial bleeds [which is] a bleed inside the skull."that he is "seeing many orthopedic injuries as a result of the falls [from these challenges]." "Injuries can include broken wrists, shoulder dislocations, ACL and meniscus tears, as well as life-threatening conditions like spinal cord injuries," he said.The challenge appears to have originally risen in popularity on Facebook earlier this month before spreading to other platforms.On August 1, Facebook user Billy Joe posted two videos that appear to show him attempting to walk across the crates. Both times, the crates collapsed, with him falling and landing on his back.

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