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Robbie Mcnamara's Injury

  • 06-05-2015 1:54pm
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    Francie Barrett
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    http://www.racingpost.com/news/live.sd?event_id=8186424&category=0
    ROBBIE McNAMARA has spoken publicly about the fall which has left him with no movement from the waist down.

    Speaking from his bed in Dublin's Mater Hospital, he recalled the details of the fall at Wexford on April 10 and the serious injuries he suffered.

    The 26-year-old suffered eight broken ribs, a punctured lung, multiple fractured vertebrae, internal bleeding in his chest and stomach and currently has no feeling or movement in his legs.

    "The ribs are healing but I've no movement from the waist down," he said in an interview on At The Races. "I'm able to lift myself up, turn myself over in the bed, get into the wheelchair and that's with broken ribs.

    "I've got two titanium rods either side of my spine and they moved the muscles away from the spine to put them in so that's probably the sorest part."

    McNamara is determined to do everything possible to give his spine the best chance of recovery, rising at 5.30am in the morning to prepare for physiotherapy.

    He shocked his therapist during his first tilt-table test as he was the first patient she had treated in four years who hadn't fainted when the table he was strapped to went past 50 degrees.

    Even if he does not regain movement in his legs down, McNamara says he will not let that get in the way of his ambition to train.

    "I can do 80 per cent of the things I used to do and if it stays the way it is then it's not the end of the world," he said. "I'll be able to drive a car when I get out of here and I'll find some way of playing golf and doing other things."
    Really have to feel for him, he wasn't long professional and now his career is over by the looks of it. Interesting to read he has ambitions to train regardless. He always struck me as a very clever judge of a horse.


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