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davesimondotcom · Mar 6, 2006, 07:42 PM

This girl is pretty impressive. You know her team would win after this.

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to her speedy recovery.

ghporter · Mar 6, 2006, 08:01 PM

Wow. That's gutsy and dedicated. Her team HAD to win for her. They HAD to-they knew it, and their opponents knew it too. Just wow.

meelk · Mar 6, 2006, 08:27 PM

more like stupid than anything else. you dont go waving your damn arms around with a neck injury.

dont cheer this kind of stupidity.

davesimondotcom · Mar 6, 2006, 08:32 PM

Originally Posted by meelk

more like stupid than anything else. you dont go waving your damn arms around with a neck injury.

dont cheer this kind of stupidity.

Well, I would have to think that medical professionals would have stopped her if they thought she could have hurt herself worse...

DeathToWindows · Mar 6, 2006, 08:37 PM

Saw this on the news today... the real issue with bodily movement post-neck injury is the inability to do so; if she could do that, then the EMTs would have been less worried about possible paralysis...

hickey · Mar 6, 2006, 08:57 PM

the vid almost showed some nice upskirt shots.

demograph68 · Mar 6, 2006, 09:15 PM

Originally Posted by hickey

the vid almost showed some nice upskirt shots.

hahaha, that's what I noticed too.

JohnnyAppleseed · Mar 6, 2006, 09:28 PM

That was a really stupid thing for her to do. No one knew how badly her spine may have been injured.

"gutsy" = stupid!

Also, did anyone notice the mascot was still goofing around during the whole thing?

davesimondotcom · Mar 6, 2006, 09:33 PM

Originally Posted by JohnnyAppleseed

Also, did anyone notice the mascot was still goofing around during the whole thing?

I noticed the mascot goofing off while she fell and immediately after. I didn't notice the mascot goofing off after anyone knew she was injured.

wdlove · Mar 6, 2006, 09:35 PM

A beautiful young lady, very tough. Has a great spirit very enthusiastic. She is a teenager so doesn't know any better. One the the medical personnel should have cautioned her.

Miniryu · Mar 6, 2006, 09:44 PM

Originally Posted by hickey

the vid almost showed some nice upskirt shots.

Didja notice how when all those people were standing around her strapping her in and lifting her, all of the men were standing where they could easily see up her skirt? Typical.

ambush · Mar 6, 2006, 10:03 PM

saw it on TV. that was ridiculous.

hickey · Mar 6, 2006, 10:23 PM

Originally Posted by Miniryu

Didja notice how when all those people were standing around her strapping her in and lifting her, all of the men were standing where they could easily see up her skirt? Typical.

yeah, but I would've been in the same place, so I cant critcize.

ironknee · Mar 6, 2006, 11:10 PM

did the announcer say that she made sure her skirt was straight(?)?

even the announcers were looking up her dress...damn contrast

ghporter · Mar 7, 2006, 08:00 AM

Apparently everything about her EXCEPT her arms was very well secured. If the EMTs didn't think waving them around was an issue, I don't either.

I got bumped in a minor rear-end collision once, and they didn't even want me to shake my head "no" until they'd gotten a chance to look me over. But walking and moving my arms around was no big deal; there was little I could do except for keeping my neck immobile that would either hurt or help. Same thing here.

Dakar · Mar 7, 2006, 08:13 AM

Contrast this to that pansy that got accidentally hit the face with a basketball a week or two back and was carted out of the arena while he was trying to summon tears.

euchomai · Mar 7, 2006, 08:45 AM

I read a stat that cheerleading was more dangerous than football. It was from that guy that writes the article on the back page of Sports Illustrated, it was a hilarious article. I don't want to use my google fu to find it though.

Corpse of Chewbacca · Mar 7, 2006, 10:34 AM

I'm an EMT so here it goes:

The head/neck contain the Cervical vertebrae and nerves. This is the most sensitive area of the spine and why it goes so much attention in the case of an accident. Even if a person can otherwise move, there are horror stories...here is one (I wasn't there, but heard it from a Paramedic who was)

Chicago Fire Dept ambulance arrives at a scene of a "minor" car crash. The occupants of the vehicles are out of the cars and walking around. A medic from the ambulance asks a woman if she was one of the occupants (she was). When she turns her neck to answer, she drops dead.

What happened? As long as her head from facing straight in the "neutral" position, the displaced cervical nerves and vertebrae were not harming her. When she turned, all the cervical nerves were immediately SEVERED by the vertabrae being out of place. Dead before she hit the ground.

So, we ALWAYS take extra precautions. If she were my patient I would have asked her over and over not to move anything at all. But you can't always control your patient.