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He's Dr Chris...

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And he's Dr Xand.

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Yep, we're twins!

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Now's the time to find out just how brilliant your body really is.

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From the ins and outs of what you're made of...

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I've got a poorly finger.

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..to awesome experiments.

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We're turning our bodies inside out...

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and upside down...

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..To show you all the incredible things your body can do.

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Oh, no!

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BOTH: Coming up today on Operation Ouch...

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Chris takes to the skies to discover what makes us travel-sick...

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Uh-oh!

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This man reveals amazing body skills.

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And did you know you spend a third of your life asleep?

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We find out why.

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-But first...

-Hospital doctors and nurses always expect the unexpected.

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Let's see how they fix our first patient.

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In Accident & Emergency is 15-year-old Sam,

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a budding boxer suffering with sharp pains in his stomach.

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I've had this pain for quite a few weeks -

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a stabbing, fiery pain.

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That must have been quite a fight!

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Who delivered the killer punch - Amir Khan?

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-No, it didn't happen in a fight, it happened in his sleep.

-Right...

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It was night time and Sam was in bed.

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He was fast asleep, dreaming of boxing.

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That's why he's punching, then.

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Yes, but inside his stomach another battle was brewing.

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I can see what's coming.

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'In the red corner, we have the cramps.'

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They look tough.

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'And in the blue corner, it's the stabbing pains.'

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Nice goatie!

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This could be a close fight.

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It was, and it was making Sam pretty uncomfortable.

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He doesn't look too good.

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The longer the fight went on, the worse the pain got,

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-until it was too much and he woke up.

-Ouch.

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Off to hospital for Sam.

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I don't want it to get in the way of my next fight.

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Your next fight might have to wait, Sam.

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First, you've got to overcome the battle in your belly.

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Meet Dr Eni Folaranmi.

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He'll check our patient out.

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Does it hurt here? Or does it hurt here?

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This is one, and this is two.

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-Two.

-Two. OK.

-Number two.

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Remember that - bit of a clue.

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To find out what's going on, Dr Eni sends Sam for an X-ray.

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And after a quick snapshot the results are in.

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Looking at it, he's got lots of faeces - poo - in his colon...

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Poo?!

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..and in his rectum...

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Yep, all these areas are full of poo.

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Sam is severely constipated, so he really needs to go to the loo.

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You're really bunged up.

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-And he doesn't mean your nose.

-You've got poo all over your colon.

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Your discomfort might be because you're constipated

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I can't believe it's poo!

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You'd better believe it, Mum.

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In fact, constipation is one of the most common causes

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-of a sore stomach.

-To get rid of the pain

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we need to get rid of that poo.

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Time for the world champion of poo-fighting medicine - the enema.

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An enema flushes fluid into Sam's large intestine

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to soften up the blockage and help Sam have a heavyweight poo.

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Let's hope this gets things moving.

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Well, after a night in hospital, have we had any success?

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He managed to go to the toilet,

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but the pain in his tummy is still very severe.

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I've been up most of the night. That stabbing and fiery pain came back.

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It looks like there'll be more treatment,

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so we'll be back for round two of Sam versus the poo later on.

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And now to our lab, where we put our bodies to the test

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to show you how your body works.

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Ow, that really hurt.

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Just don't try anything like this at home.

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Today, it's travel-sickness.

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Now, don't worry, Xand's not attempting to dance,

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he's spinning on the spot but it is for a reason.

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Inside his inner ear, Xand's got tubes full of fluid

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that send information to his brain about balance and movement.

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And when I stop, the fluid keeps moving.

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And this fools his brain into thinking he's still moving.

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With the fluid in Xand's ears telling him he's moving,

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but his eyes telling him he's still,

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his brain is totally confused. And the result...

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I feel a bit sick.

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If you feel sick in a car

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that's because your brain is confused too.

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As you travel, your eyes notice everything passing by quickly

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and tell your brain you're moving.

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But because you're sitting still in the car

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your ears think you're not moving at all.

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And these mixed messages don't just happen in cars.

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But I'm about to take travel-sickness to another level.

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This aerial display team specialises in aerobatic moves

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that will be way more confusing for Chris' brain

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than when I turned on the spot or you travel in a car.

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Mwa-ha-ha-ha!

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Do I have to do this?

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Yes, Chris, you do.

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Meet Mark Cutmore.

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He's the pilot who's going to take Chris up for a spin.

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You might think it's an odd time for lunch,

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but that sarnie should help to settle his stomach

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for the flight ahead.

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I'm wondering if I'll be seeing the tuna and mayonnaise sandwich again

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over the cockpit window in a few minutes.

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We'll soon find out.

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Safety gear on, it's time for Chris to take his seat.

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Sick bag.

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-We call it a comfort bag.

-A comfort bag!

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Come on, Chris - up you go!

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And they're off.

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Chris is travelling at speeds of up to 250 mph

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and so far he seems to be doing OK.

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But let's bring on the crazy moves and see how he copes

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once his eyes and ears start confusing his brain.

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This is a very unpleasant sensation.

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Human beings are not meant to be upside down.

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Ooh, the pit of my stomach.

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The tuna sandwich! It will stay down.

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Now, in a situation like this,

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clearly Chris' eyes can see he is moving

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and the fluid in his ears is moving too.

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So why does he feel sick?

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Oh, wow. I have no idea what's going on.

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There are so many different movements happening

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at such high speed

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his eyes and ears are failing to send the same messages

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at the same time to his brain.

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They're out of time with each other and that's why he feels sick.

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Uh-oh!

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Mwa-ha-ha-ha!

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As we touched down,

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I was definitely feeling the tuna sandwich returning for revenge.

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I mean, at the end I did feel sick, I'm not going to lie.

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I was very pleased to be back on the ground.

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At least you've managed to keep your lunch down though, Chris.

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But if you get travel-sick, you can stop your brain getting confused.

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Don't look down

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and try looking out of the window at a fixed spot on the horizon.

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This will mean your eyes and ears

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are sending the same messages to your brain

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and you shouldn't feel sick.

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We're going on call with the UK's emergency services,

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heading into the thick of the action to help save lives.

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Now it's Chris' turn on the front line.

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This is a West Midlands Ambulance Service rapid response vehicle

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the paramedics who drive these are on call 24/7,

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always ready for extreme medical emergencies.

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This fast medical service takes thousands of 999 calls every day.

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If you have a serious accident

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then they're the people you'd want to come to your rescue.

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On call with me today is paramedic Ben White.

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Just got a call to see a 23-year-old girl who's got chest pain.

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Chest pain is something that can have really, really serious causes.

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So Ben, as well as negotiating his way through the traffic,

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is thinking about all the different things this might be,

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all the causes and how he'll manage it.

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And I've got my camera to get you as close as possible.

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We arrive at the scene just a few minutes after the call was made

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and our patient is having problems breathing.

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What's actually been happening today then?

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-I've been up since quarter to seven this morning.

-Yeah.

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-With chronic chest pain.

-Right.

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And they've got worse in the last, say, about half an hour.

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-Okay-dokey.

-Kyrie, since she woke up, has had really bad chest pain.

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So Ben's just having a listen to see if we can work out

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if this is something that needs to go to hospital or not.

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Your chest sounds a little bit wheezy.

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'Ben gets Kyrie to blow into a monitor

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'that measures the air flowing out of her lungs.'

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I could hear that it was a bit wheezy,

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that indicated that the breathing passages

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are a bit constricted and closed up

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and that's what is causing the wheezing noise that I can hear.

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So now we're going to give her a nebuliser,

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which is a mist of drug that can penetrate right down into the lungs,

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open up the breathing passages, and hopefully she'll feel better,

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-less pain and easier breathing.

-How do you feel at the moment?

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-Does it feel any easier?

-A little bit.

-A little bit.

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'While the nebuliser gets to work, Ben monitors Kyrie's heart rate

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'to make sure there's nothing else wrong.

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Looking at your ECG, there's nothing abnormal on there

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that indicates the pain's coming due to a problem with your heart.

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That is a normal recording of your heart. It's in good shape.

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Kyrie, I'm a bit concerned that you still seem quite short of breath.

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I'm concerned that if we leave and she's still short of breath

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that may need to be checked out in A&E

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just to rule out another cause of the breathing problem.

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To get Kyrie to hospital for further tests, an ambulance crew arrive.

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She's a lot better than when we arrived, she's comfortable,

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but she's still got chest pain.

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We're pretty sure it's not the heart

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but there are other serious things that it can be.

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So she's going to go to hospital and have things properly checked out.

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And with Kyrie in good hands, we get ready for our next call.

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With hundreds of rapid response crews like this on standby,

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it means that if you have an emergency

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medical care can be with you in minutes.

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Still to come - we get wired up, to find out why we need to sleep.

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I go on duty in the Accident & Emergency department.

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And we show you another amazing body trick.

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-You think I can do it?

-ALL: No!

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Now, did you know

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there are 100,000 miles of blood vessels in your brain?

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That's enough to go around the Earth four times.

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Wow, that's amazing. And so is this.

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In an ordinary city,

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high above the streets, lies a deserted urban playground

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awaiting a prime performance.

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Ready to see some serious skills?

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This is John Farnworth, and he's a football freestyling genius.

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He holds five world records

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and can do 107 shin keepy-uppies in a minute.

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His specialities also include...

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-Toe keepy-uppies...

-Around The World...

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The side-to-side on head...

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And heel keepy-uppies...

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This keepy-uppy king trains for more than 40 hours a week

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and he's completed the London Marathon

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whilst keeping the ball in the air.

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So how does John's amazing body do this?

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Believe it or not, the secret to John's success lies in his brain.

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Certain tricks are harder than others,

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but they all require a lot of concentration to do.

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When it comes to the brain, up front is the big lad, the cerebrum.

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That's what allows you to think, make decisions and learn.

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The cerebrum houses the motor cortex.

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It's the midfield maestro, pulling all the strings,

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telling our muscles to move when we want them to.

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Playing at the back - the cerebellum.

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Crucial for balance and co-ordination,

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it's the big-match player

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with the vital role in everything you're seeing right now.

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Now, that's amazing.

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Can we have our ball back, please, mister?

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Xand, that is not amazing!

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Let's go back to the Accident & Emergency department

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and meet our patient from earlier.

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Back in Manchester, budding boxer Sam is in hospital

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with a troublesome tummy.

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He'd been fast asleep, dreaming of a boxing victory.

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Watch out for his fists!

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But a battle was brewing in his belly.

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I wouldn't mess with them.

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As the stabbing pains took hold,

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Sam woke up with a seriously sore stomach.

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X-rays revealed Sam was severely constipated

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and basically needed a big poo.

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He's managed to have one, but a second X-ray shows

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there's still plenty of poo to come out.

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They've cleared the left side,

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but now there's a load of poo on the right side.

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Enter Dr Alex Turner,

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a man with a plan to banish that blockage for good.

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I'm going to insert a nasogastric tube.

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So that's a tube that's going to pass down the nose

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and into the stomach

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so we can administer a special medicine.

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This tube means the medicine can get straight to the poo,

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soften it up, and hopefully help Sam go to the loo.

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So, with the medicine making its way to the pile-up

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there's only one thing left to do - wait.

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# Time goes by So slowly... #

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-Any luck?

-Not so much as a sniff.

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Any joy?

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No. I think we might be here a while.

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Come on, Sam! Still nothing?

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-No.

-How many times has he tried to go?

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I've lost count.

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Several toilet trips later - do we have a result?

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-Thank goodness for that.

-Hooray - it's a knockout!

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The poo has come at last.

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The big poo.

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I feel great, the poo has finally come out.

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I bet, it was one big blockage!

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We've got to really watch now what Sam eats.

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He's got to cut down on his sweets and fizzy pop.

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-Pizzas, burgers, cheeseburgers.

-And drink plenty of water.

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So if you want to do doo-doo,

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-don't, don't eat too much junk.

-I can't wait to get back to boxing.

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We've got loads of amazing body tricks to show you.

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Here's how to stop your friends from simply moving a leg.

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I'll show you that I can stop Chris using his leg

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without even touching him, that's how strong I am.

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-Do you think I can do it?

-ALL: No.

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-Never!

-So I'll get Chris to put his left foot against the wall -

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flat up against the wall, so even the heel is against the wall.

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Then I'll get him to push his ear against the wall...

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-This isn't going to work.

-It'll work really well. Look at me.

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-Get your ear up against the wall as hard as you can.

-OK.

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Come on, lift your leg, let's go.

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ALL: Chris, Chris, Chris, Chris,

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-Chris...

-See, I told you it would work.

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Chris can't lift his right leg at all.

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-Chris, Chris, Chris.

-Argh!

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OK, can you lot do any better?

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-I did it!

-No, your ear came away from the wall, Amelia.

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You have to keep your ear on the wall. Go.

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What do you think is going on here?

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You have to be able to lean to one side to balance,

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but the wall is blocking you to lean to one side.

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-Very good explanation.

-Very good.

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To lift your left leg off the ground, your bodyweight has to

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shift directly over your right leg to keep your body balanced,

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but the wall gets in the way, meaning your leg can't go anywhere.

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Give it a try and see if you can impress your mates.

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We've seen lots of patients coming into the hospital.

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It's been a few years since I worked in Accident & Emergency,

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but I'm going on duty at the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital

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emergency department with Professor Simon Carley.

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Open 24/7, this department sees more patients an hour

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than any other part of the hospital.

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This casualty is 15-year-old Joe, who's been in a bike accident.

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Joe's come in by ambulance. He was cycling down a hill really fast,

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his brake didn't work and he crashed into a people carrier.

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No-one in the car was injured, but the car was badly damaged.

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So we have to be careful that

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-he doesn't have serious internal injuries.

-One, two, three...

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So Louise is just feeling down Joe's back, making sure

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-he hasn't got any fractures there.

-One, two, three...

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-Were you wearing a helmet?

-No. That's one thing, kids -

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-wear your helmets.

-Are you going to wear a helmet from now on?

-Yes.

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-Will you get your brake fixed?

-I'll scrap the bike and get a decent one.

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So far in the contest of Joe versus the car, Joe's in a good mood and

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hasn't any obvious injuries, so at the moment, it's Joe one, car nil.

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Next, we have to check for internal injuries with an ultrasound machine.

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We're looking for any blood there. That shows up as black.

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I can't see any at the moment, so that's good news.

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The ultrasound scan of Joe's internal organs is normal,

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so that's Joe two, car nil.

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We'll take Joe to X-ray, where we'll take

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pictures of his bones and ear, to see if any of the bones

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that are tender are actually broken.

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We'll take pictures of Joe's pelvis, so the bones of his hips,

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we'll then take pictures of his spine and his chest,

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then the spine, up to his neck.

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OK, Joe, that's that picture done.

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What we're trying to do here is get a picture of the spine

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just at the back of his skull, so to photograph it well,

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he needs to open his mouth and take a picture of the vertebra there.

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-It's hard with this.

-I know, it's very hard,

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-but you're doing superb.

-Good lad. That's done.

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Professor Simon takes a careful look at Joe's X-rays.

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I think those look OK. We will also get the radiologists,

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who spend all their time looking at X-rays and are expert at that.

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They'll look at these too, and all being well,

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-we'll take everything off and get him set up.

-Brilliant. His mum said

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-he was made of steel, she might be right.

-Might be.

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Are you surprised that we've got a smashed-up people carrier

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-and a perfectly well 15-year-old boy?

-I am a bit surprised,

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but I'm also quite pleased, really.

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Astonishingly, Joe's X-rays are completely normal.

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That is Joe three, car nil.

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-Ready to go home?

-Yeah.

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-So in the man versus car contest, we have a winner.

-Yeah.

-Ha-ha!

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Great result, but it's been a lucky escape for Joe,

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things could have been a lot worse, so make sure you wear that helmet!

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Ever wondered why you have to go to sleep?

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Ever heard someone snore so loudly, the room rumbles?

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LOUD SNORING

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We're about to tell you why.

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This is a case for Investigation Ouch!

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You spend a third of your life doing nothing.

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I'd hardly call picking my nose nothing.

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I'm not talking about your disgusting habits.

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I'm talking about sleep - all animals do it, including us.

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It's essential for life. So to find out more, we're going to bed.

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To discover what happens when we sleep,

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we're spending the night in this sleep clinic,

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but first, we need to get wired up by a team of sleep experts.

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This will give us information about what our bodies do when we sleep.

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-I suppose you'll also have your bear wired up!

-Of course.

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Mr Grumble has a lot of trouble sleeping sometimes.

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Monitoring us will be sleep expert Dr Wahab Dhemech.

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So sleep is not just sleep - there are different types of sleep?

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-Absolutely.

-And some types relax your brain and recharge that,

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and other types recharge your body?

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Basically, yes, that's why we need sleep.

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-Night, Chris.

-Night, Xand.

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Time for us to sleep. Dr Wahab sets the computers up

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to record the night ahead, and I'm hoping this will prove

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that Xand snores. He's always denied it.

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-Mr Grumbles knows I never snore.

-Night, Mr Grumbles.

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In a night, your brain cycles through different

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types of sleep every 90 minutes until you get up.

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You'll start with a light sleep - this lasts around 20 minutes,

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and your breathing and heart rates slows down. You can still be

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easily woken at this stage. Then you fall into a deeper sleep -

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it's at this stage where some people walk or talk in their sleep,

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because their body is still active, even though their brain is resting.

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Then you start REM sleep, which stands for rapid eye movement.

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It's in this stage where your brain is organising itself

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and you'll have dreams, then your body repeats this cycle

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about four or five times in a night.

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Next morning, and it's time to get up.

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Other people say I snore, but I really maintain that I don't.

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I think they're all liars.

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All will be revealed shortly, Xand. I didn't sleep very well at all.

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We're both looking a bit weary. Oh, dear.

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Let's find out why we're both so tired.

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Chris, this line here, that's for when you were awake,

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then here, you slept, that's different sleep stage.

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Here, you were awake, then you slept again and then you were awake.

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In terms of a good night's sleep, I only had, what, 2.5 hours?

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Although I was in bed for six hours, I only was asleep for 2.5.

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That is not enough, and not only does my body feel very tired,

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my brain feels really thick headed and unrested as well.

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-So how did mine compare to Chris's?

-You had more sleep.

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-How long did I sleep?

-4.5 hours.

-So I got twice as much sleep as you.

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But even four hours isn't enough for your body to rest,

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especially when you're young. Children need at least eight hours

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as you're growing and your body needs to work harder.

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We're adults and can get away with less, but we still feel very tired.

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On dreaming, how do we compare?

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Well, Chris, I don't think you had a dream at all. Xand, you had two.

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Although I had a full sleep cycle, it was pretty restless

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and I just didn't dream, which can happen.

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But look at this section of the graph.

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I had lots of rapid eye movements. This suggests that I was dreaming.

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Were they short dreams, or...?

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One is half an hour, one is half an hour.

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Really, half an hour of dreaming? What about snoring?

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-You did snore.

-I did?

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OK, Xand, there's the proof - you do snore.

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-SNORING

-Oh, dear!

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-How much of the time was I snoring?

-7% of the night.

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Not everyone snores like me,

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but people who snore can't move air freely through their nose or mouth

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during sleep, so the air vibrates against the relaxed

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muscles in their throat and nose. That's what makes that snoring sound.

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You sleep for a third of your life, but you're not doing nothing,

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you're recharging your brain and your body,

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so if you don't get enough sleep, that'll affect everything you do

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and you'll feel absolutely rubbish.

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How many dreams does the average person have in a year?

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Is it the equivalent of...

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In fact, the answer is B.

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You have 1,460 dreams a year.

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So you could be having

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up to four dreams every night.

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Medical teams always expect the unexpected.

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Let's see how they deal with this patient.

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This is nine-year-old Ellie. She's in hospital with a painful wrist.

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I was wearing high heels that big.

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-Go on...

-They're my sister's, I love 'em, they're purple,

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-and they're gorgeous.

-Got it, they sound fabulous.

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I had one and my other mate had one, and we were running

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and I was trying to chase after my mate, then we fell.

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Hang on, who had what on?

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Let's get this story straight.

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Ellie was with her friend, trying on clothes.

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-Is that a sandwich?

-Yes. Then Ellie spotted her favourite item.

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Her sister's purple high-heeled shoes - fabulous!

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-So she put one on...

-Hang on, her mate's put the other one on...

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-Yeah, don't ask. Then they ran down the street.

-Er...

-Don't ask!

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-All of a sudden...

-Watch out!..

-..Ellie tripped

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and fell onto her hand. Ouch!

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This is how I ended up in the hospital, because of the high heels.

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But they were fabulous, and purple!

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Anyway, let's meet Dr Mark Ansell -

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the man to sort that wrist out.

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-So what's happened?

-I was wearing my sister's high heels,

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-I was running down the street and I fell.

-Do you mind if I have a look?

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Ooph! So where's it hurt?

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-Like, around here.

-Dr Mark will need to examine Ellie's hand

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and wrist thoroughly to find out just what the problem might be.

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I'd say the problem's running in high heels.

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-Heel, she only had one on.

-That sore, right here?

-Yeah.

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The rest is kind of OK. And a little bit here.

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OK. There's a little bone and she's a bit tender on that.

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I'm going to look at the X-rays and see if we need to fix anything. OK?

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The human hand is made of 27 bones.

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Your fingers alone contain 14 bones called the phalanges,

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then there are five metacarpals

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stretching through your palm

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and eight carpal bones in your wrist, where Ellie is feeling pain.

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The bone I was curious about is this one, the scaphoid.

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There doesn't appear to be anything there and there's

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no gross deformities, so there's not a particularly obvious break.

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Good news for Ellie.

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I've had a look at the X-rays

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and I can't find any obvious break of the bone, or anything.

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In some circumstances, there can be a break that you can't see

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in the first 24 hours. but at the moment,

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that's unlikely, but we'll go on the side of caution.

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To help Ellie's hand heal, she's getting a scaphoid splint.

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You wouldn't happen to have that in purple, would you?

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It's a supporter to hold the thumb in a nice position.

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I'm just glad that they give me that so this might make it better.

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Splinted up, Ellie can head home in some nice sensible shoes.

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Next time... Chris takes a scary ride to find out

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how our bodies cope with fear.

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What will this man be doing?!

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And we go on a journey inside Chris' body to look at his vocal chords.

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We're now going past the back of... Oh, that's really good!

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-So see you next time on...

-Operation Ouch!

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