Why is it that, like in action movies, when you break someone’s neck they die? Isn’t it just like breaking your arm? I know there’s your medula there, but why does it kill you?
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Your spinal cord carries a lot of the functional nerve impulses from your brain to the rest of your body. If that connection is severed through something like a neck/spinal injury, then death and/or permanent disability are more likely. The bones in your extremities have less of those connections that are critical to survival, so those injuries tend to be less life threatening unless there are severe wounds with heavy bleeding.
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