PAIN FROM VIOLENT TRAUMA: MOTORCYCLES AND NECK INJURIES

Motorcycles and Neck Injuries

Motorcycle accident injuries are becoming all too common because often the power of the machine is greater than the skill of the rider. The motorcycle boom has meant that nerve injury to the shoulder is becoming more frequent. On hitting any obstruction, the rider is catapulted forward and hits the road at the speed at which the bike was travelling. While crash helmets have effectively reduced head injuries, the rider’s shoulder often takes the impact, being violently wrenched down and backwards. Damage can often be severe, with painful long-term consequences. This is because the arm is supplied with a network of nerves which leave the spinal cord at the level of the lower neck and upper chest and funnel into the arms. In the most severe of these injuries, the spinal roots are avulsed — or virtually ripped out from the spinal cord. No repair is possible.

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