Bradley Martyn, one of the most recognizable names in the fitness influencer world, has revealed that he completely severed and lost part of his pinky finger in a shocking dirt bike mishap.
The 35-year-old YouTuber and gym owner discussed the incident with his followers during a livestream earlier today.
According to Martyn, the injury happened during what was supposed to be a routine task: loading a dirt bike into the back of a truck with a friend.
“Typically, I could just lift the bike up into the back of the truck, like, with me and a buddy,” Martyn explained. “My pinky was hanging off just enough. As we’re like to go, ‘one, two, three, go up,’ all I felt was almost like a snap. And then I was like, ah, fuck, I hurt my hand.”
“I Saw My Bone”
The moment Martyn looked at his hand, he knew something was very wrong.
“I looked at my hand briefly, and I saw my bone, like the white bone you see in an anatomy diagram, prong forward,” he recalled. “Then I looked at where my hand was on the bike. The cut-off portion of my finger was sitting on the piece of metal on the dirt bike.”
Shocked but composed, Martyn immediately alerted his friend. “I said, ‘It cut my finger off. We need to go to the hospital.’”
Emergency Hospital Dash
Martyn was rushed to the emergency room, where doctors assessed whether the severed portion of his pinky could be reattached. The answer, unfortunately, was no.
“They basically cut off like a centimeter away from my cuticle,” Martyn said. “I have the bottom part of my cuticle and a little bit of nail. If there was more of it taken off, they could have reattached it, but they couldn’t justify reattaching it.”
Surprisingly, Martyn noted the pain was not as intense as one might expect. “Wasn’t super painful,” he said, though he admitted the sight of the exposed bone and detached finger was jarring.
