The skull breaker challenge is trending on TikTok. Why doctors say it could be fatal
A new dangerous trend taking over TikTok is now making headlines as parents across the globe warn of the severe harm it can cause.
One viral video out of Colombia, in particular, demonstrated how a person can sustain an injury from the stunt — dubbed “Rompecráneos” in Spanish, meaning skull cracker — when the student fell onto the back of his head on the ground outside of his school. Although the video has since been removed from social media, the video is archived on Twitter. Administrators of the school where it took place also took to social media to condemn it.
“I really contemplated posting this, but I feel there needs to be awareness of this malicious cruel viral prank,” Arizona mother Valerie Hodson wrote on Facebook about her young son who was tricked in the stunt by two friends. “He landed hard flat on his back and head, as he struggled to get up he lost consciousness, he fell forward landing on his face. The school monitor ran to his side, all the while the 2 boys were snickering and laughing as his stiff unconscious body lay on the asphalt.
Videos of the skull breaker challenge on TikTok have been replaced by “skull saver” challenges, in which users are reenacting the challenge without the hazardous kick, as well as public service announcements about the dangerous stunt. Denise Klinkner, MD, a pediatric surgeon at the Mayo Clinic Children’s Center in Rochester, Minnesota adds that the person in the middle of the stunt will likely become injured even if prepared for what it entails. “In spite of knowing this is the intent, the falling teen rapidly lands without blocking the fall, leading to at minimum a concussion,” she says. “If one is able, an outstretched hand to block the fall may lead to a broken wrist or arm.
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