Neck Injury advisory- advice

[Iowajes]

I have multiple cervical fusions and ride everything.

I'm still under the care of my neurosurgeon and have his blessing along with a, if something hurts, stop immediately warning.

You know your body more than anyone else. I worked my way up from moderate rides to the fun ones. Making sure I could handle something before getting on it was very important for me

Wow- that's awesome you don't have ride restrictions.

Having been full-body paralyzed once though, I'm not really willing to take the chance. The "if something hurts, stop" doesn't really work for me- nothing has ever hurt, really. (Well sometimes the nerve pain could get really painful as feeling came back), it's more that I just couldn't use my hands at all.

Plus, how do you stop a rollercoaster mid-ride, if something goes bad?

 

[Dashzap]

Wow- that's awesome you don't have ride restrictions.

Having been full-body paralyzed once though, I'm not really willing to take the chance. The "if something hurts, stop" doesn't really work for me- nothing has ever hurt, really. (Well sometimes the nerve pain could get really painful as feeling came back), it's more that I just couldn't use my hands at all.

Plus, how do you stop a rollercoaster mid-ride, if something goes bad?

Exactly. My son's philosophy is why risk it. He was in a car wreck, C4 and C5 were shattered. He has rods and screws from C3 to C7. Incomplete quad. Walks but lots of issues all over.

We haven't been to a park since his injury in 2010.

One interesting point: 10 days after his accident he arrived at the Shepherd Center in Atlanta GA, a specialty hospital for SCI and TBI. The day after he got there, they were taking all the SCI teens to Six Flags. I said surely they weren't taking injured kids still in neck braces on roller coasters....but they were! My son opted not to go, as it was his first day up in a power chair.