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In response to "can you die from a broken spine?" by groiny

It's like you've never even seen a Steven Seagal movie. He kills dudes by breaking spines all. the. time.

Posted by musubi Oct 18 '10, 13:17

In all seriousness, your spine carries your CNS. How can you possibly think breaking that would *not* threaten a life?

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I have never heard of someone dying immediately from a broken spine. - groiny Oct 18, 13:22 47
- kids are more flexible, silly -- nm - Spawn Oct 18, 13:25 3
  - being a kid is like being constantly drunk! -- nm - Beryllium Oct 18, 13:29 2
    - A drunken kid is nearly invincible -- nm - Guigue Oct 18, 13:30 1
      - *lauhing* -- nm - mara Oct 18, 13:32
- Nobody is saying it's a *likely* injury. Like ReyRey said, it's such a small step from paralysis to death. - musubi Oct 18, 13:25 18
  - in NFL history, has anyone ever died on the field? - groiny Oct 18, 13:29 17
    - Chuck Hughes 1971 -- (link) - amoxy Oct 18, 13:33
    - Before the first perfect game was pitched, noone had ever pitched a perfect game before. - musubi Oct 18, 13:32 1
      - *sighs* nm -- nm - groiny Oct 18, 13:33
    - Ray Chapman died from a fastball to the head. - Will Hunting Oct 18, 13:31 6
      - again, a baseball at 90mph to an unpadded undeveloped chest.... - groiny Oct 18, 13:33 2
        
        You accept that a guy could get paralyzed from a hit, right? - musubi Oct 18, 13:37
        
        Mike Utley was paralyzed when he went face down on the turf in a trench block. - Will Hunting Oct 18, 13:34
      - Chris Pronger's heart stopped from a slapshot to the chest. -- nm - Reagen Oct 18, 13:32 2
        
        did he die? nm -- nm - groiny Oct 18, 13:34 1
        
        good lord you're obtuse. -- nm - Reagen Oct 18, 13:36
    - (also, in almost every case, the people that have suffered catastrophic injuries are the hitters, not the hittees). -- nm - Reagen Oct 18, 13:30
    - that settles it then, it can't happen. -- nm - Reagen Oct 18, 13:30 5
      - not, you are jumping to a point way out there. - groiny Oct 18, 13:31 3
        
        football has not been played for very long with players of the size and force of today's NFL. at all. - TFox Oct 18, 13:37
        
        You're making the classic mistakes. - Reagen Oct 18, 13:36 1
        
        sure, they are, but they are on both ends of the hits. - groiny Oct 18, 13:39
      - yeah, that changed my mind too! -- nm - zork Oct 18, 13:31
- It's not math. It's not "X and Y happens then death". People live through injuries they should have died from. but they also die from injuries they - Reagen Oct 18, 13:25
- dude, you can lose the nerve pathway that tells your heart to beat and/or your lungs to breathe. It's very possible to die from that. Hopefully, they - zork Oct 18, 13:25
- Who was the famous racecar driver who hit the wall and died immediately despite being in all that protection? -- nm - Max Oct 18, 13:25 11
  - Earnhardt is the most recent/notable. -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 18, 13:25 10
    - apples and oranges. common sense is 150 MPH, is significant. - groiny Oct 18, 13:26 9
      - No, we're talking people dying from catastrophic neck/spine injuries. - Will Hunting Oct 18, 13:27 8
        
        35 is pretty fucking far from 150. nm -- nm - groiny Oct 18, 13:34 7
        
        and those drivers have harnesses to constrict the movement of their helmet. it's about g-forces not speed. -- nm - zork Oct 18, 13:36
        
        people don't die in 35 mph car crashes? -- nm - TFox Oct 18, 13:35 5
        
        we are not talking about cars here. nm -- nm - groiny Oct 18, 13:37 2
        
        and the difference is...? - Reagen Oct 18, 13:39
        
        you've made the analogy to your own car crash like four times. force is force. -- nm - TFox Oct 18, 13:38
        
        The only person with the expertise to answer this issue is going to be loosi. -- nm - Max Oct 18, 13:37
        
        35's pretty fast when your head's smashing into an immovable object. -- nm - Ender Oct 18, 13:37
- A lady I worked with slipped down the stairs and broke her neck....her family found her when they came home. - Will Hunting Oct 18, 13:23 7
  - ok, but assume there is medical staff on hand as there is in a football game? - groiny Oct 18, 13:25 6
    - and she couldn't get oxygen to her lungs because... -- nm - Reagen Oct 18, 13:27
    - Wait. You think the brain being unable to tell the lungs to breath is a failure of the lungs? (nm) - musubi Oct 18, 13:26 2
      - someone laying in a stairwell for 8 hours with a broken neck, sure. - groiny Oct 18, 13:30 1
        
        So....let's say they're there within 30 seconds, they intubate within a minute.... - Will Hunting Oct 18, 13:33
    - And yes, medical personnel could help....they almost might just be there to put up a good show (ala the Owen Hart accident) -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 18, 13:26
    - She died in the manner that her brain operations were no longer connected to the remainder of her body operations. -- nm - Will Hunting Oct 18, 13:25
- you got hit by a car? - hachiko Oct 18, 13:23 1
  - yup. - groiny Oct 18, 13:23

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It's like you've never even seen a Steven Seagal movie. He kills dudes by breaking spines all. the. time.

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