If we break out necks why do we die?!
Question: If we break out necks why do we die.?
What actually happens when you break your neck.? i heard death is simultaneous . Why.? Health Question & Answer
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Hello! Here's the explanation:
You actually have SEVEN cervical vertebrae (neck bones), not 8 (like Khadiva said). Your C1 or atlas bone sits at the very top of your neck and your C2 or axis bone sits just below the atlas. Your axis has a part that protrudes and is called the dens. The dens sits in a little circle made of bone and ligaments. When someone, for example, "hangs themself" the dens breaks the ligaments and the dens invades the spinal cord, spilling out spinal fluid. Without spinal fluid you die. Does that make sense.? Here is a website that has a good picture for help: http://www.siliconvalleyspinecare.com/Im...
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You actually have SEVEN cervical vertebrae (neck bones), not 8 (like Khadiva said). Your C1 or atlas bone sits at the very top of your neck and your C2 or axis bone sits just below the atlas. Your axis has a part that protrudes and is called the dens. The dens sits in a little circle made of bone and ligaments. When someone, for example, "hangs themself" the dens breaks the ligaments and the dens invades the spinal cord, spilling out spinal fluid. Without spinal fluid you die. Does that make sense.? Here is a website that has a good picture for help: http://www.siliconvalleyspinecare.com/Im...
Hope this helps!Health Question & Answer
Well, it can be fatal immediately but not always. It's my understanding that when you break your neck, you would sever part of your spinal cord or something along those lines and you (your brain) would lose the ability to regulate breathing, your heart rate, etc. Things that you can't consciously control will not be able to be taken care of so your body shuts down without your brain available to control your body.Health Question & Answer
Well you have 8 bones in the neck, cervical vertebrae. When these bones break, they may cut through the spinal chord. When this happens other body function like breathing and your heart beating stops. But, a broken neck doesn't always kill you. Its only if the chord is severed and even then that doesn't always kill youHealth Question & Answer
That is not necessarily true. _MY_ neck got broken in 1972 and I'm not dead...at least I _think_ that I'm not dead; this may be purgatory but I don't think so.
Fatality depends upon how much damage was done to the spinal cord, larnyx, esophagus, and bronchial passages.
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Fatality depends upon how much damage was done to the spinal cord, larnyx, esophagus, and bronchial passages.
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im not 100% sure why but if somebody breaks their neck they dont always die...my uncle broke his neck in a gymnastic accident and he is paralysed from the shoulders down,
i think its really bad breaks that you die from :S Health Question & Answer
i think its really bad breaks that you die from :S Health Question & Answer
That's only in the movies. You just become a cripple.Health Question & Answer