Jonathon Simonetti - Back on the Bike

 thanks man! to clarify it was my T6 and T7, idk if id still be riding if it was my C haha

 I fractured my C2 and my skull and the bones in my face the c2 was fractured more then half way through i was air lifted to john hopkins and spent a week in the ICU i went on my first ride since october 20 yesterday and they said im going to make a 100% recovery so i have 3months to get ready for the gravity east series and cant wait. congratulations on your recovery. and like skinnersession88 I had a halo on as well not the comfiest cast lol much rather wouldve got my hands out to catch me.

 wow, i cant imagine breaking my neck although thats what everyone said about my back, just seems like a whole different ball game as far as recovery. stoked to hear youre back tho too! If all goes as planned I should be able to make it out to the east coast to race this year so ill be on the lookout, good luck with all racing!

 I've got spacers between my T5-6 VB and I had to eventualy have a diskectomy of the T5-6 (several old injuries, one big one and being a Firefighter/Paramedic for years finaly took it's toll)...Back/neck injuries are absolutely awfull, I don't wish them on the worst of folks... Super glad to hear Jonothan is doing well and back to riding. It could have easily gone the other way. Awesome to see him back on the bike aye... Keep up the good work mate.

 i broke my C6 and C7 a few years back, now my C5,6,7 and T1 are all fused together. I push harder now than i ever did before. good luck to you and all that have suffered major injury while shredding the gnar!

 Wow... if you just looked at this string of comments you'd thik us Yanks can't stay on our bikes...

We should start a PinkBike "I've Broken my Neck and Back Club" aye, we've already got 10+ members on this page alone...

 damn, thats gnarly! glad to see youre back aswell and I was super happy to ride again too! best feeling ever being back on my bike

 Yeah, spent the whole time in the halo waiting for the day I'd be able to get back on my bike again. Seeing the likes of Dan Atherton get through it was a massive inspiration to me, and made me realise it's possible. I'm really glad to see your riding again and getting fast. It's such a great feeling being able to do what you love, I certainly don't take it for granted like I used to.

 man i broke my back in four place and had to have a full body thing, and bloody hell there bad ain't they?! and yeah i completely agree with you, there should be more videos about recoveries like this it really helps when your strapped to a bed for 3 months and need some uplifting!

 Pretty sure the forks said "BOXXER" on the side...

 Yea I don't have a 888 yet because I dont have the money to buy one, bikes kinda costed a lot

 bikes are expensive guys

 Breaking your back is expensive too... For us Americans who don't have the kind of health care system you Cannucks have aye. Stoked to see him back on the bike. Way to go man, ya can't keep a determined rider down.

 Jesus that sounds bad, how are you now?

 Really bad, I'm lucky to be alive.. Now I can't complain, my ribs are quite ok, my lungs are ok, my spleen..well I don't know but it's not my problem anymore ahah The only problem is about my vertebrae, they require more time to recover completely but in a week or 2 they should be ok. I want to be sure to be fully recovered before being back on bike and I know it will take some months but I think that it will be worth the wait
Thanks mate!
p.s. I don't know if it's all correct in english but I hope you can understand

 Yes, your English is really good! yeah the next few months will be painful man, i'm nearly back on my bike after almost five months of recovering from a broken back! It's worth waiting though and not jumping straight into it though haha

 I agree with you..it's better wait that every bone is ok before breaking everything again ahah Good luck with your return on bike!

 Cheers man, and yours!

 i live right next to it. it's awesome

 Man the first three months are painful! i broke my back in four as well, broke back buddys on that one , anyway i got the full Monty and has a complete upper body brace on for 3 months which was awful! no showers, no exercise, minimal socializing. I was just sat at home hearing about what a good time every on was having :'(. I'm nearly finished my fifth month now and after days spend in the pool it's nearly bike time as well!

 I was allowed to walk out of the hospital just a week later,after 3 months I was back on the bike. I always wonder how you can break something in very similiar ways but get such different ways of having it heal. Where did you break yours?

 T3, T4, T5, T6 and something else happened to T7 but i can't remember what it was haha, and yeah it is strange, i was bed ridden for 2 weeks which sucked and after that my full body brace came, like Simonettis brace my'n had to cover my neck as well :/ sucked, after my brace came off the 3 months later i nearly flipping fell over because my head felt so heavy! Anyway as i'm back on the bike in two weeks i was just wondering like did it affect your ridding in anyway? i mean like confidence and how much it slowed you down haha

 Not at all I literally went straight from the check up X-rays to riding the exact same jump I broke my back on. I have ADHD though so I tend not to think about stuff and just do it,injuries will affect everyone's confidence in different ways. Take it easy for the first bit though,a year and a half later and my back still hurts everyday because I went into things full bore right away!

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 Yea I had a Leatt on and that's actually what caused it

 so you would say dont use leatt? and how was it caused by the brace?

 Leatt's will help prevent certain spinal injuries, but it doesn't come close to protecting from every kind of spinal injury. They actually make some worse

 The piece that goes down on the back was what dug into his back and shattered the bone. He now wears an alpinestars neck brace which prevents that from happening.

 Do you think it would of been worse had you not been wearing the Leatt? Great edit and great to see u back and shreddin btw.

 The Leatt saved my neck which had it broken would've been way worse so forsure wear a neck brace. I just switched to the alpinestars one because the piece on the back snaps if u land on it hard enough

 Cool thanks. I will be switching neck braces now lol

 I think the newer Leatt's have that feature. Isn't that what the Thoracic Strut does?

 The newer ones might have it. But yea what broke my back was the thoracic strut. Right where the bone was shattered was right where it ends and the other vertabrae compressed from the impact

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 Sorry I meant the last one haha

 Oh its "Punching in a Dream" by The Naked and Famous

 Thanks!!!