Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 4:32 pm
I'm not surprised. A friend of mine crashed at Brands and got carted off to hospital, where they checked him over and sent him home.
Two days later he still had a bit of pain unless he tipped his head forwards, but reckoned he was OK. His wife insisted he went to his local hospital where they x-rayed him. Next thing he knew he was strapped to a board, and was like that for a couple of months. Turns out he had a broken vertebrae that could have paralysed him if he'd moved in the wrong way.
It seems either these injuries must be easy to miss on x-rays, or maybe because they don't hurt as much as they should blokes assume there's nothing wrong and nobody looks too closely at it.
After crashing my last Gixxer I had a broken radius, but because I could move my fingers OK, the ambulanceman said there was nothing wrong with it. It didn't hurt much so after 5 days when it wasn't getting better I went to hospital. They told me I was a plonker and shouldn't believe ambulance crews!!!
Two days later he still had a bit of pain unless he tipped his head forwards, but reckoned he was OK. His wife insisted he went to his local hospital where they x-rayed him. Next thing he knew he was strapped to a board, and was like that for a couple of months. Turns out he had a broken vertebrae that could have paralysed him if he'd moved in the wrong way.
It seems either these injuries must be easy to miss on x-rays, or maybe because they don't hurt as much as they should blokes assume there's nothing wrong and nobody looks too closely at it.
After crashing my last Gixxer I had a broken radius, but because I could move my fingers OK, the ambulanceman said there was nothing wrong with it. It didn't hurt much so after 5 days when it wasn't getting better I went to hospital. They told me I was a plonker and shouldn't believe ambulance crews!!!