Video: Aaron Chase Through My Eyes - Spine Hardware Removal
For the past seven years, professional mountain bike rider, Aaron Chase has suffered chronic back pain due to a piece of metal hardware installed in his spine:
"In 2007, I was competing at a contest and I fell off of this elevated walkway," Chase says. "The unthinkable happened, I crushed my L1 [vertabrae], it dinged my spinal cord and I temporarily lost function in my legs — I was paralyzed."
Suffering from nagging pain, Chase finally decided to undergo another medical procedure to have all the hardware removed and brought along a host of GoPro cameras to record it. In the video, Dr. Robert Bray of D.I.S.C Sports and Spine Center leads a precise medical procedure to remove all the old screws, rods and bolts.
Post Surgery- Aaron takes us on a Colombian Adventure.
Join Chase for horse-assisted shuttle runs, bull-dodging slalom turns and crazy, over-the-handlebars, high-speed crashes in the latest episode. Here, he teams up with Chilean downhill racer Gustavo “Guga” Ortiz to explore Colombia’s ultra long downhill trails. Despite all the action, the highlight of the episode might be an introspective look into Chase’s life when he lays down in the grass and chats about his recent back surgery.
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I am the proud owner of a 2-vertebra plate for the front of my C 6-7, and a pair of 3-vertebra plates for C 5-6-7 because they found more damage when they opened up the back of my neck. Ten screws total, and a little chip of a dead guy's or girl's bone. I can't remember the name of the titanium company/supplier, nor the dead guy or girl's name.
Except that they did, maybe they do things differently in the US?
That yellow ball balance shit looks like it'd be hard.
I think buddy was pullin' some funny binness 'cuz he said "oh, I forgot about that turn". SO YOU HAVE RIDDEN THAT TRAIL BEFORE YA LYIN' SUMBEECH!!!