79-year-old Japanese man managed to get a 90-inch jump-rope stuck in his bladder after allegedly shoving the rope into his penis

He should have skipped this jump rope.

A 79-year-old Japanese man managed to get a 90-inch jump-rope stuck in his bladder after allegedly shoving the rope into his penis.

Doctors wrote in a September study published in Urology Case Reports that the unidentified man inserted the rope through his urethra, however, the handle-less rope became tangled and stuck in the man’s bladder.

The man was forced to seek medical help, complaining that he was suffering from a condition called dysuria — difficulty with urination — only for doctors to find the rope.

Medics unraveled the medical mystery by investigating his bladder where they found “a large object accompanied by acoustic shadows.”

It was then the man admitted what had happened — although he did not explain why he did it — and was transferred to a hospital.

An X-ray then revealed this object was “a wire-like coiled foreign body.”

According to doctors, there was no way to remove the rope the way it went in, so they had to perform surgery on the patient.

The man did not tell doctors why he had inserted the rope but putting objects into the opening of the penis is a risky sexual act known as sounding. 

Medics used information from detailed scans to create a 3D computer model of the tangled rope to determine the best method of removal.

A UK-expert said it was one of the most ‘extreme’ cases of an object being inserted into the body via the penis he has heard of in his career, which has spanned two decades.

The elderly man originally attended the university’s medical centre complaining of dysuria, a painful or burning sensation when urinating. 

When medics investigated his bladder using an ultra sound scan they found ‘a large object accompanied by acoustic shadows’ was inside the bladder. An X-ray then revealed this object was ‘a wire-like coiled foreign body’.

The man was then forced to admit to doctors that he had inserted a skipping rope into the urethra of the penis. Medics did not state if the man explained why he had undertaken the bizarre act.

Lead author of the case report, published in the journal Urology Case Reports, urologist Professor Toshiki Kijima, said medics then performed a CT scan to determine how best to remove the rope.

He said they then used a computer programme to generate a 3D reconstruction of the rope which showed it had become too entangled to pull it back out through the penis.

The rope got entangled as the bladder contracted, a natural process that occurs after it expels stored urine.

‘Transurethral extraction was difficult considering the length of the rope and its entanglement in the bladder,’ Professor Kijima said.   

‘Traditionally, grasping forceps and retrieval baskets are used to remove foreign bodies. 

‘However, wires inserted into the bladder usually curl up as the bladder contracts; therefore, special consideration is required for wire-like foreign bodies.’

This forced medics to surgically remove the rope directly through a small incision cutting into the man’s abdomen and then pulling it out of the bladder in its entirety.