JT McNamara in induced coma following fall at Cheltenham

Scans have shown a serious neck injury. They are awaiting further scans and tests to know the full extent
 
Apparently serious injury to C3 and C4 according to Clare Balding and will have further assessments in the morning.

Fingers crossed for him :(
 
Best wishes for him to make a speedy recovery.
Are C3 and C4 the ones you can break and get away with, in the top of your neck?
 
Fingers crossed for a speedy and complete recovery. Suspect from what I have read about him he will not be pleased to have missed the rest of Cheltenham. Also best wishes to his family and friends during this time
 
People forget just how dangerous the game is...... imagine standing on the bonnet of a car travelling at 40mph round a switchback track, ........ its pretty much the same thing, and there are lots of others doing the same thing. Nothing is predictable.
Best wishes to JT, family and loved ones.
 
Clodagh said:
Are C3 and C4 the ones you can break and get away with, in the top of your neck?
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The bones can break (cif Tim Stockdale), however it is potential damage to the spinal cord that runs through the vertebrae that is the concern.

Tim was lucky - let's hope JT is as well.

Scans this morning should show what the situation is - fingers crossed it's good news for him.
 
Latest from Irish point to point site:
'John Thomas McNamara was moved to Theatre on Friday morning to operate on the serious neck injury he received in a fall at Cheltenham on Thursday. His wife Caroline is with him and it is not expected that any further reports will be available on Friday'
 
Don't anybody ever say that these jockeys are a hard-hearted lot.
I've never seen such emotion from them,trainers,owners. Even the Channel 4 team looked like they were struggling to keep it together. A very hard day for all of them.
Fingers crossed for JT and a huge hope for a speedy recovery.
 
Shazbat said:
Don't anybody ever say that these jockeys are a hard-hearted lot.
I've never seen such emotion from them,trainers,owners. Even the Channel 4 team looked like they were struggling to keep it together. A very hard day for all of them.
Fingers crossed for JT and a huge hope for a speedy recovery.
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This. Exactly. Even the hard nosed MacManus and McCoy were as human as one could wish for. CB had no reply to the owner's visible distress.

They have risen, all of them, in my esteem. It's just to easy for us to all consider that their only interest is fiscal. It isn't.

Alec.
 
I too, will send my best wishes to JT for a full speedy recovery.

These jump jockeys may be as hard as steel many times, but they are also very human and are a large team and hate it when they are a 'man down'. Those injured are never far from their thoughts. I truly admired APs 'win dedication' to JT.
 
Clodagh said:
Best wishes for him to make a speedy recovery.
Are C3 and C4 the ones you can break and get away with, in the top of your neck?
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Not so much, they are pretty serious, just sat here with mum who used to work with the jockeys and their injuries, she was the orthopedic lead matron at cheltenham hospital, so has seen her fair share of riding injuries (makes it great to ride horses as her daughter - especially nutty ones:rolleyes:)

Anyway, she says its a bad injury.
 
Racing Post has just stated a quote from Dr. McGoldrick stating that the surgery was successful. Please god let this be the start of good news and recovery. ETA he is still in the induced coma at this time #pray4jt
 
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Queenbee said:
Not so much, they are pretty serious, just sat here with mum who used to work with the jockeys and their injuries, she was the orthopedic lead matron at cheltenham hospital, so has seen her fair share of riding injuries (makes it great to ride horses as her daughter - especially nutty ones:rolleyes:)

Anyway, she says its a bad injury.
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Thank you for that.
 
amage said:
Racing Post has just stated a quote from Dr. McGoldrick stating that the surgery was successful. Please god let this be the start of good news and recovery. ETA he is still in the induced coma at this time #pray4jt
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Prayer, whether we are believers, or not, can it hurt?

a.
 
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