URGENT Docters Only Please: I Think I Might Have Cracked A Vertabrae Please Help!?
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hehe... i am a doc and there's no way of knowing if you have broken a vertebra just by saying your horse acted up! it can happen or it might just be a strained muscle or disc. the best way to rule out anything is to go to the emergency and get a x-ray or MRI than sit around waiting for an answer here.
Go to a hospital for crap sake. Seriously.... don't sit around and wait for someone who claims to be a doctor on the internet to give you medical advice....
It depends on what happened when the horse acted up. If your head did a whiplash, then you could quite possibly have a cracked vertabrea. Either way, you should go to the hospital and have it checked out. At least get an X-Ray.
WHAT?!?!?
Get off your @$$ and go to a hospital!
To say the best of what could happen, would be a pinched nerve, but here is the worst:
Well, if it was in the Cervical area (Neck, Head) then try not to strain your neck by turning it and stuff, but if it was the thoracic, (starts near the neck area and goes down to your lower extremities) try not to do much activities like sports, especially baseball and tennis because of how your arms can move suddenly and the possibility of jumping and diving. Don't ride your horse for a while, not because of the acting up, but because of the trot making you go up and down which may hurt your vertebra's condition even more. If that vertebra's condition breacks even more, you might be paralyzed and if it was in the cervical area, well, you'd be dead because if something interferes with the spinal nerve system up there above your neck, it will cut off the power to your lungs.
Pinched Nerve Information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/pinched_ner...
The vertebra: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/vertebrae...
and the Intervertebral disc: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/interverteb...
I'm sorry if this may be wrong...
see a doctor
Definetly go to a hospital. If you are right, then that's bad. Seek immidiate medical help.
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