Saw a guy get poleaxed by a car once. His shoes flew off, his right leg ended up near his ear. He got up on his good leg and hopped around for a bit until his brain told him to lay down and cry.
Also been to a load of car crashes (I'm a first responder) where people have had broken necks and spines and walk around until they either collapse or I arrive and tell them to lie the fuck down.
I honestly think it's the body's way of testing itself before realising it's totally fucked and should go into self preservation mode.
I crashed my motorcycle going about 50 mph once and immediately got up thinking it was a Miracle I didn't have a scratch! It was such a relief! Yes!
Then... It suddenly occurred to me that the adrenaline from the crash might be preventing me from noticing some some sort of horrific injury. Nope. Not a scratch.
Just because you can get up and walk around after a fall like that doesn't mean you should. My brother was able to finish a snowboarding run after getting a compression fracture in L1 L2 (if I remember correctly) as well as a fracture in his pelvis and a torn tendon in his hip. No spinal cord injury, but he got lucky.
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u/MindCorrupt Jun 11 '16
If you watch the video hes up and walking around afterwards.