Posted on 05/01/2015 10:49:42 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
That's not what sites providing information on the topic are saying.
Read up on the literature of biomechanics of cervical spine injury.
The force involved is found motor vehicle accidents, not head butts.
I DON'T need to read up on anything to know that "anything is possible" and there are NO absolutes.
However, I guess you know exactly what happened.
We'll have the DA contact you for your special testimony immediately
“That’s not what sites providing information on the topic are saying.”
Links, please, because I find your claim not credible.
Heroin is a powerful opioid and opioids cause sedation.
I have a very athletic coworker who went to see an orthopedic surgeon last year for several health problems. Pain and reduced motion in her arms and shoulders being among the issues. Rotator cuff damage or spinal compression was suspected.
While performing x-rays and MRIs the surgeon discovered that this woman had a very dangerous problem in her neck. Her skull and neck were only barely connected, very close to “internal decapitation”, probably the result of a car wreck more than a dozen years ago.
A slip and fall, or the whiplash from even a low speed collision could have paralyzed or killed her if this had not been caught and repaired, and it was discovered only by accident.
If Freddie Gray had a similarly undiagnosed weakness from some long forgotten accident then what wouldn’t have been a life threatening injury to a normal person could have killed him.
That took me a minute.
I swear, it’s like I’m *trying* to be obscure, isn’t it?
;D
My ex severely damaged my neck by throwing me onto my side and then dropping his weight on my shoulder.
He refused to take me to the ER because he knew he’d be arrested.
[prison guard, bad scene, that]
For over a year, I could not turn my head at all.
I had to turn my body to look at anything, like a chicken.
Almost 30 years later, I still can’t turn my head to left very far.
They called it a Hangman Injury, which is basically sideways whiplash.
I have neuro issues and pain that is often crippling.
Reading her story scares me.
If I tilt my head back to look upwards, I nearly black out.
Three years ago, when trying to force a “crack”, a chiro gave me a mini-stroke.
Can’t remember the specific name of the type it was.
As much as I detest the thought, I think I need to have this finally looked at.
:-\
Pretty much my view too
Heroin and crazed don’t really go together in my experience unless a junkie is out Of dope
Then desperation and cramps and runny nose and hallucinations etc
But opioid withdrawal is piker compared to Xanax or Barbituates or Booze
My pharmacist friend swears Soma.....carisprodal....Is the worst withdrawal drug known to mankind physically and mentally.....it’s a muscle relaxer which makes one drowsy and slight euphoria and numb face like a quaalude.....it breaks down like Miltown....a 50s era tranquilizer similar to Placidyl.....jellybeans in my era....red or green
But a real beast to stop abruptly
My neurosurgeon office prescribes it but I’m wary of it....ive got probably 200 in my body injuries cabinet....I rarely use them
I do use Zanaflex at night when I can’t sleep.....muscle relaxants for spondilyosis are fairly ineffective but soft muscle relaxants injected locally in gut muscles when you are in the throes of dysentery in some turd hole.. Like Haiti or Gabon...it’s an Angels touch.... Extremely effective
Being high on heroin is sloppy....but happy....think falling asleep sitting up in a chair listening to Stevie Ray Vaughn as yer 1970s era Marlboro Red burns down to the filter tween your fingers
The Nod of lore
Oh and an itchy nose
The cheeks, always the cheeks.
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