The agonising moment professional trampolinist suffers back-breaking injury mid-flip READ MORE: Father-of-two left '2mm from paralysis' after his neck 'snapped' By Emily Stearn, Senior Health Reporter For Mailonline Published: 10:34, 3 October 2024 | Updated: 10:41, 3 October 2024 e-mail View comments A Dutch professional trampolinist narrowly escaped paralysis after a horrorific training accident left him with a broken back. Footage shared on TikTok and Instagram by @flips.by_Siard shows the agonising moment his back 'folded' as he hit the trampoline sooner than anticipated.
But the athlete, who boasts thousands of social media followers, miraculously did not permanently injure his spinal cord. Instead, he escaped with a vertabrae fracture — which often heal naturally — and in a shock to fans has already bounced back training again. In a separate Instagram video from a US neurosurgeon, known only as Dr Z, the medic warned such injuries could result in ruptured blood vessels or even total paralysis.
Footage shared on TikTok and Instagram by @flips.by_Siard shows the agonising moment his back 'folded' as he hit the trampoline sooner than anticipated In a separate Instagram video from a US neurosurgeon, known only as Dr Z, the medic warned such injuries could result in ruptured blood vessels or even total paralysis He told his 200,000 plus Instagram followers: 'He is gaining a lot of height. These are professionals that have been doing this for several years.
'But there's a.