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- From: tms@cs.umd.edu (Tom Swiss (not Swift, not Suiss, Swiss!))
- Newsgroups: rec.martial-arts
- Subject: Re: Sternum strike vs. Solar plexus
- Message-ID: <63064@mimsy.umd.edu>
- Date: 25 Dec 92 21:44:35 GMT
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- david@elwood.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (David Johnson) writes:
- >
- >The way I understand it, a sternum strike is not intended to break
- >any bones. It is intended to shock the heart. When CPR was taught
- >in the late 1970's they said to give a thump to the sternum of
- >someone who just had a cardiac arrest (the mechanism is to cause a
- >shock which defribrillates (sp?) the heart). It was also taught in the
- >class that the thump given to someone who does not have cardiac arrest
- >might have one.
-
- For the record, the precardial thump is no longer part of the
- CPR sequence. But you're right; a hard shot to the sternum can induce
- cardiac arrest. I'm told it's not unusual in car crashes where the
- driver isn't wearing a seat belt and runs chest-first into the steering-
- wheel. A strong thrusting kick to someone whose back is against the wall
- (so they couldn't move to absorb the impact) would probably do the trick,
- but Bad Guys usually are so nice as to get in such a position.
-
- >Also in CPR class they taught that compressing the xyphoid process
- >can cause it to lacerate the liver resulting in some pretty nasty
- >internal bleeding. This is different from a strike to the sternum
- >or solar plexus.
-
- Again, correct, but this wouldn't be a good stopping technique.
-
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