Joe Rogan - Bas Rutten's Neck Injury

Even nerves and regrows apparently everything and rats, I mean they regrow tendons, everything and I'm going to try it. I'm going to try it locally here on the biceps, see what it does as soon as I have the water. So it seems like the muscles are growing back though, like slowly but surely, right? Yeah but it's six years. Six years. Look at this. That's crazy. I do 25 pounds, I can do eight times now, bicep curls with the right. That's a lot better than it used to be though. I couldn't do five pounds. Wow. Yeah not once. Pat Milletich is the same thing, same thing from his neck. You know what you want to hear how crazy Pat's injury was? Pat's disc had deteriorated so badly that his discs fused themselves. And he didn't realize that. That guy's a complete animal. He didn't even realize it. His discs fused themselves. He went to the doctor and they're like well we don't have to fuse it, it already fused itself. And if you talk to him and he looks at you, it's like he hasn't fused necked, right? He's always like Batman. He's stiff. He looks to the side. He can't move. Yeah. So I guess. Fucking grappling man. I know. They'll blame it on punching and kicking but all the knees, injury, everything, my rib that was out my last night, it's all wrestling. It's rapping and wrestling. Wrestlers are all fucked up. We were talking about Kurt Angle yesterday who was an Olympic gold medalist, fantastic wrestler. I mean he's got a neck that literally is like the size of my waist but his neck is so fucked up. Both of his arms are tiny and you can see the atrophy in his arms. His arms don't match his neck. Oh that sucks. And you can tell, obviously you know better than anybody about neck injuries, guys always like their arms shrink because they get atrophy. It cuts off the nerves. Okay imagine. So with him it's both ways then? Yeah well it looks, we should pull up that picture again Jamie. See if you can find it. This is Ronda Rousey's Instagram. You could see it. I saw him at the induction at the International Sports Hall of Fame. I was there for, Ronda was there as well and he was sitting first row but he was wearing a suit of course so I couldn't tell. Yeah well he still looks like a tank. Yeah he does. But his fucking neck is ridiculous. It's so big but like look at this, what happened? That's us. That's great. See look at his arms. Oh wow yeah. See the size of his neck? I mean his neck, he looks like his arm should be as big as his fucking legs. I mean the guy's been through hell but look at the fucking size of his neck. Have you seen a neck like that before? That shit's crazy. He built a lot of muscle around it I guess. Well yeah it's all fucked up. He's been fused and as yours right? Yeah for this fusion. Front and back. Well one splint you know that opens it up and then the other ones are fusions. I have a friend of mine who has five and he can't move. Like look with me I have mobility. He can't do this. He can't look to the side a little bit. And I was talking to a buddy of mine about a mutual friend of ours and I didn't realize that he had done this but he had went to Germany and got his whole back fused. His whole back is completely rock solid fused. You know who has that too? Who? I was looking for him in the hospital, Don Fry. Don Fry has that too. Ten disc fusion. This guy died twice on the operating table. He had infections, the rods were broke, everything. Man I was in his hospital. He lost a lot of weight. He had a big beard and he said check this out. He stood up and from his butt crack all the way to above his shoulder blades, one big zipper. Oh god. Oh damn disc fusion. How many discs are on your back? Probably ten I don't know. I have no clue. We gotta Google that. That's fucking crazy. How many do you think are in there Jamie? I thirteen I go. Fifteen. Sixteen. So there's one disc hanging in there. Jesus. Take me. There's one disc. It's gonna go. That's what they say with fusions. If you have a fusion then the disc below or above are gonna be next they say. Because there's thirty three. Oh. It's not that bad then. He's doing great. It's only ten fusions. Eddie Bravo has an artificial disc. They put artificial discs in now. These articulating titanium discs. I wish I had that right now. I couldn't do that at the time. Yeah. It was in the early stages. But Eddie's got no problem with it at all. It moves great. But that's what I mean. For me I can't do it anymore. Maybe future you know with the printing that they do now. The three printing maybe they can make an exact copy of my spine and then they can still do it. It will be something but that's scary. Imagine that. They cut your spine out. Put a fucking titanium one in. Ah. Ah. My daughter my oldest daughter just told me my ex-wife she's gonna have to do it at a lower back. She's got like two or three fusions they're gonna need to do. But she's gonna do disc replacement as well. Yeah. Disc replacement is legit now. You know what? Bralio Esteema Brazilian Jiu Jitsu black belt. Very famous Jiu Jitsu guy. He's got one in his neck. He was the first guy that ever heard about it. He fucked his neck up really bad and then won the Worlds with a fucked up neck. And then right after the Worlds went and got it operated on. Where did he do it? Because he's from Brazil. Did he do it in Brazil? I think he did it in Europe because he lives in England. Germany will be a I would let the Germans look at my neck. They're really good. They're far advanced. Yeah. You know we got really fucked up with during the Bush administration they put a ban on all stem cell research. You know they kind of like halted the brakes on funding stem cell research. Which is really a shame. Because now we're realizing stem. Because they were they used to think that stem cells had to do with babies. Like fetuses. They were thinking people were gonna get abortions just so they could use the stem cells. But now they realize that mesenchymal stem cells and adult stem cells are some of the best. One of the things they're doing in America now is sucking fat out of people. Taking liposuction and then using the stem cells from your own body to proliferate injured areas. I did it two weeks ago for my knees. Did you? But yeah I have no fat though. So I had to take it out of my hip bone. You know they drill a hole in there. Oh right they take the marrow. Yeah they take the bone marrow. And it's unfortunate because in the fat apparently have five times more the amount of stem cells than you have in the bone marrow. So people out there that are fat are pumped to hear that. They're like yes. Oh see. That's for a reason. That's why I read it. Just if I ever get injured I've got a store of medicine.