So I know the neck snap killing is just hollywood magic and in an old post someone said its extremely hard to do even if you are a weightlifter. Im just curious that if someone tried and fumbled or you had an accident to cause such a similar neck injury would you be able to recover without issue or can it lead to paralysis?
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More people survive broken necks than don’t, at least the ones that come into my ER. And paralysis can come in a lot of levels. You can have anything from some minor bruising to your spinal cord that you recover from, up to severing it high in the neck, where you won’t be able to even breathe.
This is because not every broken next severs the spinal cord.
However , it hurts, and you can pinch the nerves that exit laterally from the spinal cord. It’s easy to do some level of damage to the neck. If either fractures or bad soft tissue injuries (ligaments) are left untreated, they create instabilities in the spine that will eventually pinch, cut, or otherwise damage spinal cord directly. Even bulged disks can be on the nerve roots, or pushing into the spinal cord itself.
So letting things heal on their own can be dangerous. But if you got surgery or immobilization with the neck brace while it heals , you can improve your chance as a lot.
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