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Broken neck, who has done it? Tim N 05-26-2008
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Posted by Tim N on May 26, 2008, 1:08 pm
I broke my C6 and C7 in an enduro, meeting with a surgeuon in the morning at
Mass General. Curious if any of you have experiance with this. Thanks Tim


Posted by Mike Baxter on May 26, 2008, 4:08 pm
wrote:

>I broke my C6 and C7 in an enduro, meeting with a surgeuon in the morning at
>Mass General. Curious if any of you have experiance with this. Thanks Tim


I have 21 years of experience with C6, and 17 years of experience
without it. Same old story...crash, boom, bang...broken, or in my
cash shattered C6. The surgeon took a piece of my hip, a Titanium
plate and 3 Ti screws and put me back together so things could fuse
together. Today I have 100% range of motion in my neck and suffer no
problems. My largest reminder is the bald spot on the back of my
head. I was on the back board for a long time and in combination with
the vibration and tape pressure followed by 3 days a traction before
surgery, my hair follicles died. A small price to pay to be able to
walk.

Mike Baxter

Posted by Tim N on May 26, 2008, 4:31 pm
Thanks Mike, I have had trouble digging up info on this, where there hasn't
been any neurological/cord damage. I finished the enduro like this, and
worked 1 and 1/2 weeks thinking it was a pinched nerve. Tim
> wrote:
>
>>I broke my C6 and C7 in an enduro, meeting with a surgeuon in the morning
>>at
>>Mass General. Curious if any of you have experiance with this. Thanks Tim
>
>
> I have 21 years of experience with C6, and 17 years of experience
> without it. Same old story...crash, boom, bang...broken, or in my
> cash shattered C6. The surgeon took a piece of my hip, a Titanium
> plate and 3 Ti screws and put me back together so things could fuse
> together. Today I have 100% range of motion in my neck and suffer no
> problems. My largest reminder is the bald spot on the back of my
> head. I was on the back board for a long time and in combination with
> the vibration and tape pressure followed by 3 days a traction before
> surgery, my hair follicles died. A small price to pay to be able to
> walk.
>
> Mike Baxter


Posted by Mike Baxter on May 26, 2008, 9:13 pm
wrote:

>Thanks Mike, I have had trouble digging up info on this, where there hasn't
>been any neurological/cord damage. I finished the enduro like this, and
>worked 1 and 1/2 weeks thinking it was a pinched nerve. Tim



I'm glad you finished and that you didn't ignore the pain too long.
You now have bragging rights as to your enduro toughness! :-)

Mine involved an over the bars with a head first landing with into a
whoop. The cracked vertebrae in my lower back hurt pretty bad, yet I
didn't learn about my neck until hospital #1.

Apparently broken necks are more common than people would imagine. I
grew up on broken necks = death. Another really old guy that was once
here on RMD had a tree land on him during an enduro. He survived, and
was diagnosed with a broken neck a week or 2 later. Lots of football
players have broken necks and some never know it.

Surgery was only painful in 2 areas. My hip hurt tremendously where
they harvested bone. The sore throat from the tubes and elevation was
pretty mean.

Mike Baxter

Posted by Tim H on May 26, 2008, 11:13 pm
> wrote:
>
>>Thanks Mike, I have had trouble digging up info on this, where there
>>hasn't
>>been any neurological/cord damage. I finished the enduro like this, and
>>worked 1 and 1/2 weeks thinking it was a pinched nerve. Tim
>
> I'm glad you finished and that you didn't ignore the pain too long.
> You now have bragging rights as to your enduro toughness! :-)

Yeah, you do.

> Apparently broken necks are more common than people would imagine. I
> grew up on broken necks = death. Another really old guy that was once
> here on RMD had a tree land on him during an enduro. He survived, and
> was diagnosed with a broken neck a week or 2 later. Lots of football
> players have broken necks and some never know it.

We recently found out that Lorena has broken her neck sometime in the past.
We started going to a new Chiropractor who took some x-rays, showing a
healed fracture line in her C1. We believe it was probably from a bicycle
crash in the 3rd or 4th grade that left her with the worst case of gravel
rash I've ever seen, and I road raced bicycles for several years when I was
younger and have seen some horrendous gravel rash. She landed on the forward
edge of the helmet and tore a big chunk out of it, but the road rash was so
overwhelmint that nothing else really came up as potential serious injuries.

I hope things work out well for you, Tim. It sounds like you must be pretty
stable already, so hopefully you'll recover with minimal intrusion.

Tim H



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