• 6-time Gold Medalist Amy Van Dyken severs spine in ATV accident
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[QUOTE]Swimmer Amy Van Dyken Rouen, who won six gold medals during her Olympic career, suffered a severed spine in an all-terrain vehicle accident Friday in Show Low, Ariz. A letter from the Van Dyken and Rouen families said she severed her spinal cord at the T11 vertebrae and that the broken vertebrae came within millimeters of rupturing her aorta. Hospital spokeswoman Alice Giedraitis said Rouen, 41, was in good condition and will be undergoing surgery this week.[/QUOTE] [url]http://www.latimes.com/sports/sportsnow/la-sp-sn-amy-van-dyken-accident-20140609-story.html[/url]
[quote]and also tweeting: "Never get us all together anymore. This is amazing. I have the best family."[/quote] Good to see you can still crack jokes about having your spine severed.
Sad to say that she may no longer be able to swim, much less walk, barring a miracle. She's lucky her aorta wasn't ruptured or she'd be DOA. In any case, she'll also suffer partial loss of trunk and abdominal muscle control at the lesion level she's taken, T9 to T12 level lesions share the same classic features. At least she's not gone into depression, which is better than nothing.
shit i hope she's not completely paralyzed, they don't say what the extent of the injury was other than bad
[QUOTE=Sableye;45060643]shit i hope she's not completely paralyzed, they don't say what the extent of the injury was other than bad[/QUOTE] No can do, severing of the spine at any level of the thorax means you're pretty much fucked as far as lower limb movement is concerned. The only good thing, if good thing it can be called, is that she isn't a basket case.
This may be a REALLY stupid question, but isn't there wheelchair swimming or something like that in the paralampics? She may still be able to compete.
[QUOTE=zin908;45060730]This may be a REALLY stupid question, but isn't there wheelchair swimming or something like that in the paralampics? She may still be able to compete.[/QUOTE] Yeah, she can compete in the Paralympics still if she wanted to.
[QUOTE=zin908;45060730]This may be a REALLY stupid question, but isn't there wheelchair swimming or something like that in the paralampics? She may still be able to compete.[/QUOTE] The answer is yes. "Paralympic swimming competition is open to male and female athletes with physical disabilities such as dwarfism, amputation/limb loss, blindness/visual impairment, [b]spinal cord injury/wheelchair-users[/b], cerebral palsy/brain injury/stroke, cognitive impairment and Les autres." [url=http://www.teamusa.org/Home/US%20Paralympics/Sports/Swimming.aspx]Team USA[/url]
[QUOTE=zin908;45060730]This may be a REALLY stupid question, but isn't there wheelchair swimming or something like that in the paralampics? She may still be able to compete.[/QUOTE] uhh you cant really swim in a wheelchair bro
[QUOTE=Chubbs;45061137]uhh you cant really swim in a wheelchair bro[/QUOTE] You can still swim if you're in a wheelchair, for further information just read the post above you.
she's 41, I doubt by the time she's rehabilitated she'll be paraolympic level
[QUOTE=Chubbs;45061137]uhh you cant really swim in a wheelchair bro[/QUOTE] you don't actually have to bring the wheelchair into the pool with you.
Her husband had modified the throttle control, so I bet he's feeling especially bad. She was driving it around a parking lot, I wonder if she was testing it in the parking lot?
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