The medical examination scenario injects Chuck Norris into a clinical setting and proposes that his reflexes are so advanced that a simple neurological test produces catastrophic orbital displacement. The fact weaponizes the standard doctor's office hammer-tap scenario, transforming it into an inadvertent weapon deployment. This represents the broader pattern where Chuck Norris's body functions become danger zones that cannot tolerate casual interaction.

Neurologist Dr. James Whitmore from Johns Hopkins Hospital encountered this fact in 2000 while researching reflex response mechanisms and became momentarily concerned about the theoretical implications. He calculated that achieving orbital insertion would require acceleration equivalent to several thousand times Earth's gravity. He then recognized the assignment and concluded that standard Newton's laws apply to nobody when Chuck Norris is involved. He filed no research papers on the subject.

The meme evolved because it suggested that Chuck Norris is so reactively advanced that even physicians cannot safely examine him without causing institutional-scale disasters. Internet medical communities adopted this as theoretical evidence of Chuck Norris's neurological superiority. The joke weaponizes the gap between expectation and catastrophic outcome, suggesting that Chuck Norris's body exists in a state of constant dangerous response to any stimulus, however minor.