Fractured L2 Vertebrae

B.Aussie

B.Aussie

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Has anyone done it? What was your prognosis? Did you need surgery? How long did it take to heal? How long until you could ski again? Did it affect your spinal cord? How did you do it?

My tips dug into the soft snow, I double ejected to scorpion to flip and they think I've fractured my L2. Bed rest for now waiting for a visit with my surgeon on Tuesday to found out all the details. But, there's no damage to my spinal cord or any functional damage so I seem okay. Any one else done similar?
 
what part? Im literally studying to be a back doctor.

Lumbar is gonna take time to heal thats for sure. Those fuckers are thick for a reason...they hold all the shit above them up
 
Tony Romo, NFL QB, played with fractured transverse processes in two levels of his thoracic. Thats bigs because each one of those processes articulates with a rib and thus even more likely to suffer pain from doing anything physical.

A broken back generally sounds much worse than it is...but a broken back can also be like the most painfult thing ever if you jank out your nerves
 
Shit Brooke!!! So sorry to hear this happened to you. I can only say that if Candide is able to ski the way he does with the injury he had, anything is possible. Stay positive and you'll be back.
 
13325415:El_Barto. said:
what part? Im literally studying to be a back doctor.

Lumbar is gonna take time to heal thats for sure. Those fuckers are thick for a reason...they hold all the shit above them up
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I think I chipped off the top left corner of the vertebrae away from the spinal cord.
 
I know all about it..... I shattered my T5 Vertebrae + spinal cord contusion back in April, I had surgery, I have about 12 screws+ some rods from t3 to t7.......the first 2 months are gonna suck and will be painful.....but slowly it will get better. Take it day by day, and stay positive the whole way.

You got this !!!
 
13325926:VinniCash said:
I know all about it..... I shattered my T5 Vertebrae + spinal cord contusion back in April, I had surgery, I have about 12 screws+ some rods from t3 to t7.......the first 2 months are gonna suck and will be painful.....but slowly it will get better. Take it day by day, and stay positive the whole way.

You got this !!!
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OP will win xgames next year
 
13325926:VinniCash said:
I know all about it..... I shattered my T5 Vertebrae + spinal cord contusion back in April, I had surgery, I have about 12 screws+ some rods from t3 to t7.......the first 2 months are gonna suck and will be painful.....but slowly it will get better. Take it day by day, and stay positive the whole way.

You got this !!!
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Holy F Dude. Your xgames performance just got way more cred.

I remember you talking about the initial injury and how you skied then walked away before getting help and realizing how serious it was. Wild. When I broke my back I couldn't feel my legs at first.

I broke t4/5 and got fused t2-8 a few years ago and I'm doing pretty well myself. Brook's injury is much different because the lumbar moves so much. The thoracic is the stiffest part of our back. Bobby Brown is another guy who had a lumbar injury and came back relatively fast.

To the guy studying to be a back doctor: good luck. I'm not sure what you plan to do exactly but I know I owe my functionability these days all to Dr Daubs in SLC at the U of U (he's now in Vegas at the University of Nevada). His team put me back together.
 
I broke my L2 pretty much the exact same way on an underrotated backflip that ended with the top part of the vertebrae separated away. I didn't need surgery, and actually didn't do much physical therapy. I just took it super easy for about 10 weeks, didn't lift anything heavy, moved slowly and carefully, and then dove into back and core strengthening exercises super hard at the gym before ski season. The season after the injury was the best season I'd had up to that point, probably because of the hard work to get strong again, though it took a couple years to mentally work up another backflip.

If you don't have any herniated or ruptured discs, hopefully you'll be back in peak condition pretty quickly. I have 3 herniated discs, which is a the worst part of the injury since discs don't heal, but even that hasn't really given me any long term grief. Rest up for a bit, and then learn to love crunches and back extensions and you'll be hitting monster jumps in no time.
 
I cracked my L2 over shooting a table to dead flat ground/ice at whiteface 9 years ago. Wasn't bad enough to need surgery. Was supposed to be out for for a month+ maybe a few but was out in a few weeks because I'm an idiot.

My shit healed shitty and it "looks like what we see with old ladies that have osteoporosis" according to some doctors.

That said it doesn't bother me that much. I'm just super careful when I lift rails and other heavy shit. I don't try and be a hero and generally it's all good.

Heal up soon! Hope when you meet with everyone they say you're in decent shape.
 
I fractured my L2&L3 5 years ago in gymnastics. I full on folded in half/scorpioned doing a back handspring on beam and missed my hands. I was in a wheel chair for a little while and it was pretty painful for the first 6-8 weeks. I luckily didn't need surgery though. I was fully back into gymnastics 13 months after I fractured it and i started to ease into it after 9. Most people can come back earlier though, but given the nature and level of where I was competing, I needed to give it more time. Everyone is different though. I also had a few complications(was involved in a car accident torwards the end of recovery which delayed some things).

Good Luck girl! Hopin you have a speedy recovery!
 
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