Ruaridh Cunningham Out of EWS Madeira with Suspected Spinal Fluid Leak
Trek Factory Racing rider Ruaridh Cunningham will be joining other riders missing EWS Madeira as he announced on Instagram that he has a suspected spinal CSF leak. Ruaridh noticed he wasn't feeling normal a few weeks ago and after symptoms worsened he went to the hospital where he was diagnosed. For the past 10 days, he has been in the neurology ward where they are trying to find out exactly what the issue is.
A CSF (cerebrospinal fluid) leak is a medical condition where a small tear or hole forms in the outer membrane that contains the fluid surrounding the spinal cord and brain. When the fluid begins to leak the overall volume and pressure of fluid within the skull drops and its cushioning effect reduces causing the brain to slump. This results in severe pain, pressure, double vision, seizures and a wide range of other symptoms.
In most cases a CSF leak can heal on its own with strict bed rest, increasing fluid intake and caffeine but sometimes a leak at the spinal level may require a clinical procedure to start the healing process.
 | "Not the news I want to be sharing but unfortunately I'll be sitting out the next round of the @world_enduro in Madeira due to some ongoing health issues. After feeling a bit off whilst out riding a few weeks ago, my first thoughts were that it might just be some residual jetlag. Unfortunately, my symptoms worsened in the days that followed and I was admitted to hospital where it’s suspected I have a spinal CSF leak. Over the last 10 days, I’ve been laid up in the neurology ward and undergone numerous tests and scans to try and pinpoint exactly what’s going on and will hopefully get some answers soon. Best of luck to mi amigo @pedroburns in Madeira!" |
We hope to see Ruaridh make a speedy recovery and be back racing soon.
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@Clifflane3 I have been to a doc. I am not stupid. But this is Sweden where only the broken and dying get attention. Simply put, those who may need to stop working and consequently stop generating revenue and paying taxes. Someone could call it an economically sound system. Oh you have lower back pain? Are you sitting right by your desk? Do you do Yoga? Do you Swim? Have you heard of foam roller and stretch tape? You better stop riding bikes and lift weights. Anyhoo: do yoga, swim, do some hip bridges and side leg raises, then take ibuprofen and apply Voltaren gel. Here are 3 free massage sessions. First appointment In 2 months. Or should I go to Functional Movement specialist? Chiropractor? Ostheopath? Naprapath? Maybe they all should meet each other? That would be fun!
Neuro won’t do anything for you unless you had debilitating nerve issues running down to your feet. Most times with people who are mostly active I find its more an issue with piriformis and imbalanced strength between flexors, external and internal rotators of your hips.
Just my two bits, but I’ll offer anything to get you off your computer and on to your bike...
No second-rate healthcare, no long que lines, no shitty doctors. I've never heard of someone traveling to a socialist country for healthcare, but people come from all over the world to receive treatment in America.
The closest thing we have to socialist medicine in America is the free healthcare for veterans that is provided by the government. It's a complete shit show.
serious happens to you. The problem is grey the grey zone. And it is unimaginable how can that be better anywhere. In Sweden, if you pay 70$ a month doctors at private clinics will lick your balls, meaning. So please stop operating with words like socialism because socialist systems are all over your place in your country. The best example of socialism in US is probably the most ironic one. Subsidies on fuel making you pay more or less as much per gallon as we pay per 1 liter. Which other thing if not socialism led to the bail out in 2008? It was a socialist decision. And if you think your insurance companies are so rich only through private money you are delirious. They get money from the state, if you google that it pops up directly. People from around the world come to US for healthcare, oh yeah, I read that line from Milton Friedman too. I wonder, do you think I am a socialist? Do you think Sweden is a socialist country? Because I assure you the answer for both questions is no, at least not as long as you are not playing some 1st grade identity politcs. And I beg you to give me an example of socialist country, because for instance China has as much capitalism in it as USA has socialism, like most countries in the world. Because such thing doesn’t really exist. It is a concept describing a certain way of acting, like being a dickhead or a troll describes me. It is a simplification that makes it easier to grasp the motives of certain actions.
Realizing it is a sign of a achieving basic level of knowledge about society and economy, allowing for efficient human interaction because it allows us to not look at the world in terms of us vs them and allows to see that we have common goals other who’s dick is bigger or who can be the more angry btch. It also takes intelligence which itself has its obvious limitations and that can be seen every time almost any politician opens his/ her mouth.
So yeah if your vision is that I am a socialist from a socialist state, and you live in the land of the free, then please keep enjoying your cancer. Also it is not Swedish Freeriders like Emil Johansson making kickstarters as soon as they eat sht for good. The hashtag #redbullshouldpay goes quite a bit against your vision of the world.
As we can see here Ruaridh is not asking for support because he was too poor to pay the medical bills. You may off course push it on stupidity of Rampage contesters like Paul Bassagiota to not get insured as you yourself gloriously do.
If only Brexit happened already, the doors to true capitalist state would be open, children would flood the streets in joy. And Ruaridh could get a better doctor. Because capitalist doctors are greats.
It's being more and more widely recommended for treatment of chronic pain.
There are taoist tai chi classes in Sweden:
Szwecja
Taoistisk Tai Chi Forening i Sverige
Email:sweden@ttcs.org
Trollhättan/Vänersborg/Göteborg
Email:trollhattan@ttcs.org
More info on TC:
www.taoist.org
taichi.pl (for fellow Polak
@game - funny thing I learned lately is that many physios tell athletes to train gluteus medius, not because they lack stability in the hip necessary to perform movements like running or pedalling or bunnyhopping. It is because all other muscles around get so strong that their bodies reach capabilities that will sometimes require even more from medius. When that fkr gets inflamed he will then compromise all other ligaments in the area. Same with hip flexor. The issue is, that physios and yogis will tell you to condition it by doing side planks and side leg raises, with stretch tape at best which simply cannot condition it to meet demands of other muscles that can already deadlift twice your body weight, because at that point your medius is already stronger than the level physios aim for.
The world isn't sensible or simple, how can an open forum be? Ugly, beautiful, stupid and clever. Pick one and get the rest for free.
And the only people coming TO the USA for healthcare are very, very rich ones.
You’re absolutely out of your mind to blame the shit state of your country on socialists. I’m guessing you haven’t been to many other countries.
And yes, I agree that the only people who come to america for healthcare are the very rich ones. That in itself should speak to how good the healthcare here is.
youtu.be/YEywCppqeZo
And yes, US healthcare is world class at the Cleveland Clinic, Mayo, and several others which have entire floors reserved for their Arab guests. Do you think that level of care and service is accessibile to the average American like you or I?
Congrats on your battle win, as is still the story today without the US pushing over the finish line with money, military might or otherwise you would have still lost the war. You may want to check the history books, we did all-right against the Japanese. In fact, the reason Japan exploded to have the number-2 economy in the WORLD by the 80's was because of the capitalist ways we imposed on the Japanese after the war.
Capitalism and homelessness go hand in hand. They’re there because they’re to Ill to make money and if you don’t have money your left to rot in a capitalist country and that’s all there is to it otherwise you’d see it in socialist countries and you don’t. We’ve had a right wing government for the last 8 years who wants to be more like America and guess what homelessness has more than doubled since they’ve been in power. Coincidence? I think not.
#1 Healthcare: Yes, in an ideal world everything could be a service, everyone would work together and a communistic utopia would form. Unfortunately, currently this is reality: Life's not perfect. Money makes the world go round, yada yada yada. The vast majority of world-class physicians (or even good, or...), even if they would like to, cannot sustain themselves, their families, etc unless it's a "business". Anyways...
My point is that while US healthcare IS good, we are fooling ourselves if we think we have access to the very best of it.
Food for thought.
And yes, that level of healthcare is accessible to the average American. I know because someone very close to me is currently receiving world-class cancer treatments at the University of Pennsylvania and Jefferson Clinic. And my wife completed her residency at Johns Hopkins (Baltimore), where the poorest of the poor Americans received world-class life saving treatment without ever having to pay a dime for it.
Yes our system is flawed and needs to be fixed, but you can't say we don't have great healthcare.
Ummm….. uuuuuhhhhh… Yeah still trying to figure you out.
I love it when people use "we" and "you" when talking about government dealings 70 years ago.
Please do yourself a favorote and watch “Perverts guide to ideology”. Be a bit more woke than woke as fuk idiots
The Germans lost the Battle of Britain and lost the war at the same time. The Americans pushed over a already toppling tower. We’d definitely not be speaking German if it wasn’t for the Americans that’s for sure. I’m happy to agree on a joint effort but unsurprising America wants to take all the credit where they probably did the least and gained the most.
You going on about Cerner when it was only rolled at two facilities, and less than a year ago at that? That rollout was/is a total dumpster fire, but generalizing to the entire VA using what is happening at TWO out of 168 facilities is pretty sketchy. The other 166 are still dealing with VistA/CPRS. You are comparing apples to keyboards again.
Look up concierge medicine. Insurance doesn't pay for it.
V-E Day!
And for the war... really? Again? I really don't think there's anything to be gained from this.
Nevertheless, this is fun. No, you might not be speaking German. You might well be speaking Russian.
I'm not propping or focused on the tent cities debate. I'm not trying to take all the credit, and neither is America. Sorry if you don't like history, reality, and facts. I'm just sick of the repetitive illogical stereotypical debates on here. Every time without fail. Someone gets injured -> someone turns it into a healthcare comparison -> digs at political sides -> the world vs USA -> WWII.
And you're both hilarious and pathetic. Unfortunately for you, intelligence and cohesion, as well as history and facts, are on my side. Sorry if you don't like reality. You can argue all day long that the moon is made of green cheese and mice made the craters, but it doesn't make it true. What's next, "I know you are but what am I?" You literally accuse me of whatever you do. Are you a 2nd grader? "I'm not repetitious, you're repetitious! P.S. What's repetitious?"
Allow to disclose a small samples of your fallacies thus far:
Post hoc ergo propter
Ad hominem
So, fallacies:
post hoc ergo propter hoc
ad hominem
Tu Quoque
ignoration elenchi
petition principii
non causa pro causa
cum hoc ergo propter hoc
Onus probandi (argumentum ad ignorantiam - onus probandi incumbit ei qui dicit, non ei qui negat)
argumentum ad infinitum/nauseam
Proof by assertion
Hasty Generalization
Straw Man
Argument from Fallacy
Affirming a disjunct, affirming the consequent, denying the antecedent
Definist fallacy
Inflation of conflict
Kettle logic
McNamara fallacy
Also possibly existential fallacy and affirmative conclusion from a negative premise
You know what, I'm finally getting a little tired. That will have to suffice (is that all?).
I love reality and facts. I’ll make it easier for you to understand. Is there a tent city in LA? Is health care available to all the citizens in one of the richest countries in the world? Did the Germans lose the Battle of Britain in the summer of 1940? Did the Germans start losing ground to the Russians in 1941? And did the Americans join the war in 1939 or in 1942 after sitting on the sidelines waiting to see who was going to win? Am I making this up? Haha unlucky mate. And if you’re going to reply with paragraphs of total nonsense. Don’t because I can’t be bothered reading it. Try to get to you’re point please. Whatever that might be. Good luck.
Nothing like trying to stay in bed after 14 cups of coffee...
Heal up Cunningham! Speedy recovery :-)
My came out of no-where, likely due to intense exertion headaches I get when doing strenuous exercise. They are more common in people who injure their backs, but "spontaneous" leaks can occur when pressure inside the head can create a rupture.
Luckily mine has mostly healed on it's own, but I'm a bit paranoid of it happening again, so I'm taking indomethacin for exertion headaches.
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