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deborahknowles
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posted 09-30-2005 02:28 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for deborahknowles   Click Here to Email deborahknowles     Edit/Delete Message
In a Knight's Tale, Heath Ledger's character William appears to dislocate his shoulder and has it put back by a wooden machine like a mangle! Is this based on fact or made up?

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bent one
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posted 10-03-2005 12:51 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for bent one     Edit/Delete Message
I think that it was based on an actual device but I'm not certain I'll check out the special features on the DVD again I know they talked about it.

Alan Tudyks "Wat" character is hilarious!

bent one
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posted 10-06-2005 01:06 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for bent one     Edit/Delete Message
The device seen in "A Knight's Tale" was based on an actual device used to put back into joint dislocated knees and shoulders. Looks uncomfortable though.

deborahknowles
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posted 10-07-2005 02:00 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for deborahknowles   Click Here to Email deborahknowles     Edit/Delete Message
You bet it was! A heard a jockey say that a dislocated shoulder is the most painful thing in the world - more than any broken bones! Thanks for the info. God, I love that film!

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bent one
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posted 10-07-2005 07:32 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for bent one     Edit/Delete Message
can you believe my dad had to force me to go to the movie for the first time we saw it? I thought it was going to be a serious war movie or something as soon as the queen started playing I promptly put aside any conclusions I had drawn about the film. One of my favorites to this day!

deborahknowles
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posted 10-14-2005 03:02 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for deborahknowles   Click Here to Email deborahknowles     Edit/Delete Message
It's a seriously (unserious) cool movie. And Chaucer's my hero.

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bent one
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posted 10-14-2005 09:15 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for bent one     Edit/Delete Message
Chaucer is great but Wat's my personal favorite character.

"If you betray us, I will fong you! until your insides are out your outsides are in!"

Oh! he is hilarious!!

Steve-O-Gerst
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posted 12-06-2005 09:14 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Steve-O-Gerst   Click Here to Email Steve-O-Gerst     Edit/Delete Message
From what I understand, the soundstage company in the Czech republic just sort of had it in their prop department. They also could find whole goat hides, and other medieval type stuff in there.

You might be interested to know that the medical department on my Navy ship had a somewhat similar rack-like device. They said it was for applying traction to broken leg bones. Apparently when you set broken bones, you're supposed to pull the appendage out, so that the broken bone will slide together more closely. Ours, of course, was made of stainless steel, and nylon straps.

bent one
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posted 12-15-2005 12:02 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for bent one     Edit/Delete Message
I hope I never ever break a bone now.
That's got to hurt like crazy. Kind of interesting seeing what modern technology really is. Old tech new materials. Makes me laugh.

Steve-O-Gerst
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posted 12-19-2005 01:16 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Steve-O-Gerst   Click Here to Email Steve-O-Gerst     Edit/Delete Message
Don't be afraid of the rack... Heath's performance was highly exagerrated.

They'd let us try it out on each other for practice (Without the broken bones!) and it felt kinda good.

The idea is to stretch the arm a little, so the bones line up again, not to rip it off. We've probably all stretched our arms a bit to relieve tension.

deborahknowles
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posted 12-24-2005 06:57 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for deborahknowles   Click Here to Email deborahknowles     Edit/Delete Message
You've never had a dislocated shoulder then Steve? I've seen people (grown men I might add) on medical programmes writhing in agony and that's just with the injury. The treatment (modern-day) only exacerbates the pain.

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horsechic123
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posted 01-02-2006 04:06 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for horsechic123   Click Here to Email horsechic123     Edit/Delete Message
Ha. I'll let you know that I'm a woman and I have had 6 shoulder dislocations in the past year. Five on my right and one on my left. Trust me, william exagerates his pain. And my dislocations we're pretty severe. They're not really that bad. Breaking my nose hurt MUCH worse.

bent one
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posted 01-07-2006 07:30 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for bent one     Edit/Delete Message
well..... that kind of depends on the pain threshold that a particular person has. Take this for example when I was a kid I flipped my bike and cleanly snapped my collarbone. Yeah I cried for a few minutes but afterwards I was swinging on the jungle gym. In fact nobody realized I'd broken the thing until a day or so later when I was swinging from a bar and my mom watched the bones moving back and forth. Nearly made her pass out : )
What I'm saying is i know people who would probably be immobilized by the pain but I'd be swinging on a bar with a broken collarbone.

And on a side note sorry about your nose sounds awful.

deborahknowles
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posted 01-13-2006 03:36 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for deborahknowles   Click Here to Email deborahknowles     Edit/Delete Message
sounds like you fall off a lot, Horsechic!

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