• Lesrid@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    Not necessarily. There are stories of horsemen getting bucked while staying in the saddle and having to hold their head up by the hair while riding to medical attention. They didn’t become quadriplegic but the internal decapitation lost them control of their neck.

    Not too sure why it isn’t considered a broken neck though

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      10 months ago

      If you dislocate your elbow, you didn’t break a bone, the joint just came unhinged.
      Your spine is a set of joints.
      An internal decapitation is basically a “dislocated skull”.

      It’s only because we have a special word for “head came off” that it’s a bit mixed up.

      Colloquially, you probably could call it a broken neck, since I don’t know if anyone particularly cares if the spinal nerve damage was because bone fractured or just came loose, outside of a medical professional.

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      10 months ago

      There are stories of horsemen getting bucked while staying in the saddle and having to hold their head up by the hair while riding to medical attention

      Fuck I was not prepared for that horrifying of a read at 3pm on Thursday