Is is possible to survive internal decapitation where the skull is separated from the spinal column?
30-year-old Woman Survives ‘internal Decapitation’ ritically injured in a car accident, skull separating from her spine, has survived to tell her story. Doctors call her recovery a miracle. A car crash slammed her into the dashboard. Her skull separated from her spine, although her skin, spinal cord and other internal organs remained intact. The rare condition is known clinically as internal decapitation, and it left her with no control over her head. Surgeons said her injuries were different from a broken neck, which usually occurs when vertebrae in the neck are cracked or broken. In her case, her skull had been knocked completely off the top of the spinal column. The spinal cord carrying all the vital nerves between the brain and the rest of the body is often severed in severe neck injuries, causing paralysis and often leaving victims as quadriplegics who are unable to move at all, like the former Superman, the late Christopher Reeve. Miraculously her spinal cord was not damaged. She
30-year-old Woman Survives ‘internal Decapitation’ 30-year-old Shannon Malloy, critically injured in a car accident, skull separating from her spine, has survived to tell her story. Doctors call her recovery a miracle. A car crash slammed her into the dashboard. Her skull separated from her spine, although her skin, spinal cord and other internal organs remained intact. The rare condition is known clinically as internal decapitation, and it left her with no control over her head. Surgeons said her injuries were different from a broken neck, which usually occurs when vertebrae in the neck are cracked or broken. In her case, her skull had been knocked completely off the top of the spinal column. The spinal cord carrying all the vital nerves between the brain and the rest of the body is often severed in severe neck injuries, causing paralysis and often leaving victims as quadriplegics who are unable to move at all, like the former Superman, the late Christopher Reeve. Miraculously her spi
Internal decapitation describes the rare process by which the skull separates from the spinal column during severe head injury. This injury is often fatal, since it usually involves nerve damage or severance of the spinal cord. There have been several survivors of the injury. The most recent was Jon Wilhite of Manhattan Beach, California who received the same injury in a vehicular collision on April 9, 2009 which included the death of Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim pitcher Nick Adenhart. Jon Wilhite survived the injury. Sources: http://en.wikipedia.
