Ms. Lien, 42 years old, was picking peppers in a field when she fell from a height of 6 meters to the ground, losing consciousness. She woke up nearly half an hour later and called her family to share the news. She was then taken to a hospital in Dak Nong for emergency treatment before being transferred to a hospital in Ho Chi Minh City. The doctor advised Ms. Lien to have spinal surgery, but she refused due to fear of paralysis.
A day later, her symptoms worsened and she was admitted to Tam Anh General Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City. On May 24th, Dr. Huynh Tri Dung from the Department of Neurosurgery at the Neuroscience Center announced that Ms. Lien had been admitted with numbness and inability to walk in her legs. MRI results showed that the L2 spine (S32) had multiple fractures of the vertebral body, reducing its height by nearly 50%.
When Ms. Lien fell, her back landed first with no recorded head injury. Doctors from the Department of Neurosurgery decided to perform percutaneous screw surgery on her spine to stiffen and stabilize it. The surgical team used the C-arm system to locate key locations so that screws could be adjusted and placed without misalignment or misplacement.
After surgery, Ms. Lien became alert, had pain relief, and was able to walk after one day. Three days later, she recovered well with no pain and numbness in her legs and was discharged from the hospital. Dr Dung said that falls can cause serious injuries such as broken back and neck vertebrae, spinal damage, paralysis of the spinal cord, broken spinal cord
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