Video: Brook Macdonald's Incredible Recovery from a Spinal Injury in 'The Road Back'
 | It was supposed to be just another training run on the World Championships in Mont-Sainte-Anne, Canada back in summer of 2019, but a fall down the “La Tarzan” rock drop turned Brook Macdonald's world upside down. A career-changing back injury dangerously close to his spinal cord has placed “The Bulldog” on the start line of a long recovery. Two days after surgery Brook decided that he will return to racing the following season. In spite painfully slow process and pessimistic forecasts of medical professionals, he was back in the start gate in less than 12 months. “The Road Back” is the story about everything that happened in between. |
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Totally make sense now !
Last Christmas I ruptured a blood vessel in my spinal column and that pressed against my spinal cord At L1 for a 25 hours. (At the same height as brooks back)
The pain, uncertainty and terror for your friends and family are al too familiar.
Luckily just as brook, I am managing a full recovery within the normal recovery time window. But we are the lucky few who have the opportunity. Many more who have life changing (permanent) damage to their spinal cord cannot have full function after recovering.
Full credit to Brook, who has had to fight all these battles with mental, fysical and nerval damages. It is absolutely the hardest thing I had to endure in my whole life. So that only shows how resilient Brook is but also how much he loves bikes and racing.
I am still recovering, from the outside it might look al perfect again but there is still a lot that has to come back.
Thank you brook for helping me by showing me what is possible.
Brook has always been one of my fav riders so absolutely stoked he was able to make a full recovery. Fricken love to see him on the podium this year
He did have a hard slam at one of the races after this; he really is flirting with disaster, I hope he stays healthy long term!
I think Brook is the kind of person that always gets the star in mariokart, because he knows how to drift
ALL VALID.
BROOK YOU'RE A LEGEND BRO \m/