Mississippi Influencer paralyzed from Surfers Myelopathy

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Brock Kelly is opening up about a recent surfing incident in Hawaii.

The Mississippi-based content creator shared on Instagram Monday, Nov. 19 that he suffered a rare surfing injury the previous Friday, on Nov. 6, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down.

Kelly, 24, suffered surfer’s myelopathy, which is a rare non-traumatic spinal cord injury caused by hyperextension of the back, which cuts off blood flow to the lower spinal cord, according to the National Institutes of Health.

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Basically if you hyperextend your back for long periods of time you can kink of the supply to the Artery of Adamkiewicz which supplies the lower spinal cord. Then you end up infarcting your lower cord. Apparently this is very rare but is scene in people trying to learn how to surf. So you should straddle the board as opposed to laying prone, when waiting on a good wave.


Also read that you can get it form doing yoga.





Hope he bounces back. Dude is a bigtime runner so its gotta be tough to be paralyzed.

I read online that recovery is variable.