9 year old boy “fully recovers” from orthopedic decapitation.
“I just kept screaming,” his mom, Stacey Perez, recalls. “I just wanted him to wake up.”
She was behind the wheel when, authorities say, a dump truck ran a stop sign, plowing into her car.
Jordan was buckled up in the back seat, but the impact caused an unthinkable injury.
“The energy basically made his head lift up off of his neck, and then move forward,” explains the pediatric neurosurgeon who saved Jordan’s life, Dr. Richard Roberts of Cook Childrens’ Medical Center in Fort Worth.
It’s called orthopedic decapitation. Jordan’s spinal cord remained intact, but his skull separated from his neck.
“All of the connective tissue that essentially keeps your head connected to your neck was destroyed,” Roberts says.
“I do remember seeing him in the car and his head was just kinda just hanging down,” Perez noted.
Doctors were able to reattach his skull with a metal plate and titanium rods, enabling Jordan to start defying overwhelming odds.
Absolutely amazing.
This story will cause heads to roll.
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Never seen that term used before. Google shows about 11,000 hits for “orthopedic decapitation,” as opposed to 24,000 for “atlantooccipital dislocation,” and 265,000 for “internal decapitation,” which I (not a medical professional) have seen, and I assume are the same condition.
That’s no way to get ahead in life.