Dr. Johnny Benjamin answers MMA related medical questions at MMAJunkie.com and recently talked about the dangers of catching a toe in the eye from a kick:
The Dangers of Toenail Polish in MMA
↵↵In early October, Mike Winklejohn (striking coach) at the famed Greg Jackson’s Mixed Martial Arts facility in New Mexico lost an eye to a high kick and toenail to the eye. The toenail actually pierced the cornea, which robbed him of his sight in that eye. This injury occurred during training.
↵Lightning struck again, fortunately less ferociously, Nov. 6 in Fresno, Calif., on the latest “Strikeforce Challenger” card. During a competitive contest, Zoila Frausto caught Elisha Hellspur just under the eye with a high kick.
↵On slow motion replay, it was quite obvious that the toenail caused a deep, bloody, fight-altering gash under Hellspur’s left eye. The kick narrowly missed the eye by a fraction of an inch.
↵↵He goes on to explain that Frausto had toenail polish on which made her nails even harder and more dangerous.
↵In a sport featuring men punching, kicking, elbowing and kneeing each other in the head, and trying to submit each other by torquing joints in directions they are not meant to move…a painted toenail is completely frightening.
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