Learning to walk again after schoolboy rugby neck injuries | Australian Story
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- Опубликовано: 10 июн 2024
- Two teens, two broken necks, two remarkable journeys towards recovery. Conor and Ollie were once strangers, but after suffering "catastrophic" injuries while playing schoolboy rugby they found a new friendship.
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I love how Ollie was rooting for Connor like they had been childhood besties. ❤it's so nice to see human kindness is not dead . Such an encouraging story
I pray God that you get healed everyday and get back to your routine. Miracles happen every moment of our lives. Prayers sent.
I am remembering a kid I went to Jr and Senior High with. This was in a few decades ago in the US (early 1970s). Back then, Jr high was grades 7-8-9; HS was 10-11-12. He was tall, strong, an athlete’s athlete; starting in both football and basketball, a top player in both, university scouts, the whole bit.
Then came HS - essential for scholarships. The HS football coach acknowledged all of that and then refused to have him on the team. It was his neck; it was “too long”. The coach said despite his athleticism and skill, the possibility of him breaking his neck was too great; coach was not willing to take that risk. Great. Coach.
You KNOW the coach is VERY wrong when he talks about rugby as a CONTACT sport !!!
Its a defense sport and all about AVOIDING contact and there are rules put in place to avoid as much contact as possible.
Well played a game of rugby is rough, but should be harmless.
Unfortunately - accidents happen when testosterone levels are uncontrolled and Coaches like this think it's macho to play rugby because it's a contact sport.
This kid could have been riding his bike and have the same happen to him.
I have had a similar acident in my life much later on and I know what it is to know that you WERE capable of something (walking, talking, writing) but that you now have to start from scratch again as that has been taken away from you.
I wish him all success in his quest. Good luck. But that coach - "If you don't love contact ...." HE is the problem.
When you lose the use of your legs, it is not easy to accept. These boys and families have risen to the occasion with grace and courage.
Beautiful families giving love and support to two amazing inspirational young people- go you two young people!
Gotta pause video to commend you both. Connor and Ollie, you are amazing young men and sharing your story is incredible brave. Thank you. The love of family is magnificent.
Respect to both lads but especially Conor. I have a neurological condition & know the pain & frustration of seeing someone with the same condition progress with a treatment while you do not improve or it takes 10 times longer. The most insulting thing is when people assume I am not trying hard, not realizing I am trying 50 times harder than the average person & about twice as hard as a person with the same condition who is less affected. It is pure incalculable luck how our bodies react, I do not judge how you are affected but how you deal with it, both guys were willing to push their bodies to extreams & I hope it pays off for both of them.
How are u now m8?
Remarkable to see the human spirit can conquer almost anything; well done Connor and Ollie
Could not inmagine what the famerliy is going through what a parents worst nightmare such a dangerous sport some of those tackles are so feirce hope they progress Forward
I was at the game conor tweedy was injured at. His mother was so distraught, it was heartbreaking.
Amazing kids. Good luck to them.
Well done Conor you are getting better ..what a brave boy you are
My goodness though. Conor's parents are a little harsh. He has his cognizant faculties and is continually improving. Be happy for that. He's not an invalid for heaven's sakes and can work, earn money, learn, have a career and be a contributing citizen. Feel bad for the chap but keep going. Keep fighting
Great kids and wonderful families + physio teams!
No discussion of helmets???
All the best to the boys and their families!
wow an update would be good on how they are both doing now
I broke my neck in a school Rugby game when I was 16, the accident could not have been avoided, but the severity of it could however have been lessened if we were conditioned better physically, and also if we were coached better on what to do/not do in lose-mauls i.e. always role out of the lose-maul, instead of standing up straight, when you intend to get out. It could prevent injuries to yourselfm and/or other players
@DRS_ au And if I might ask, who would this mythical "victim nation be"? Also paraphrase or cite any part of the documentary where someone was blaming others.
@DRS_ au Stop deflecting, and answer my question. You could have stated your opinion, regarding ABC's perceived narrative, in your original comment, instead you chose the lazy option (that does not require you to critically think it over, or back up your arguments), and simply brush this documentary of as people with a victimhood-mentality.
I wholly agree with you that ABC has a specific agenda, or narrative that they try to put forward, but belittling the story of us who have suffered life changing injuries through sports, only makes you look like a doos (irrespective of what your actual point was).
what was it exactly that broke your neck? (for example, i ran into a person head-first and the impact snapped my neck). and what were the physical consequences of your injuries? i live in america, so i don't really know rubgy, but it looks like such a violent game (this is only based on that episode i saw on friends) is it a combination of soccer and american football?
There’s a lot of things they don’t tell you about spinal cord injuries here that makes this even more humbling & challenging for those afflicted with it & for their families
KEEP STRONG BOYS...YOU'LL ALWAYS HAVE THE LOVE AND SUPPORT OF YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS..TAKE CARE
Sons & families, you should be so proud of yourselves!
you should also have enough sense not to play sports where injuries are prevelent.
Respect to you boys wishing u a speedy recovery Conner ♥️
What a dangerous sport ..WOW ‼️
Happened to a guy in my year. Like about half of all the spinal injured in Union, no wheelchair. But life long impact. Seemed to my mind to be about one schoolboy a year, so 5 does seem a lot ?
There should have been a report after the first accident
My pinkey finger broke on the first game day because the sports medicine student joined us in practice with a weighted rugby ball. She said it wasn't broken so I waited too long, now my finger is deformed.
I'm American, I'm sorry, but it seems to me that American football and rugby shouldn't be played by children/teens... Their bones aren't fully-formed yet, thus making them more susceptible to injury...
@Tony Roberts i was a flight attendant who flew football players. Their bodies were all broken and they were in great pain. I went to grade school and highschool with Jack Snow. He was drugged up on dope at the school reunion because of football injuries. No sport is worth spending a life in pain because of a stupid ball!
@Tony Roberts many get TBIs (traumatic brain injuries) though.
It's a sport that changes a lot of young lives, especially if someone doesn't have good health insurance.
@Tony Roberts maybe NFL has their own planes or charters?
bones are stronger in kids, but internal organ injuries are common from high impact mechanisms.
OMG m, I'm at work crying. 😭😭😭
Rugby can be a dangerous sport my oldest son had issues due to rugby we been doing lots visits hospital etc shoulders both been injured coming up 3 years with this injurie
Our son Played league and union ,was bench pressing massive weights had seem to mature early and was naturally very strong but at times done damage because of this strength ,tackled another opposing second rower and it was game over and strait of to hospital and very frightening .To play hard contact sport you have to be in the best physical condition .Having said that the young body is still growing bones, ligaments ,muscles haven’t set till approximately 21years of age
This is Rugby Union. In Rugby League the scrum has been sanitised to the extent that it is a scrum in name only.
The next step is to get rid of scrums altogether. I think League will do this. Union should seriously consider it too.
This is so sad 😞
That's really pain
Completely random, but what kind of bird is that @21:38??
it's not a contact sport, it is a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport. Said by a football (United States football) coach.
You're running into people leading with your head. It's surprising it doesn't happen more often
I used to love playing rugby shout out to West Seattle nothing but samoans and Tongans on our squad!
My son played rugby for nine years, I've never seen any serious injury with any team that entire time. Was it a training or coaching issue? My son was always a prop at 6'2" 260 pounds.
Dangerous sport
Lova Tweeds
How are you doing Connor? Any further development?
He can walk now in 2021
Makes me understand why American Football has so many rules/regulations and safty gear.
It’s quite naive of the dad to make that statement. It’s very probable to sustain any kind of injury playing this rough and tumble sport.
This is ridiculous. It’s 2020 and we still allow our youngsters to play these extreme body contact sports. When will it change?
Men rule the world, women trot along behind them while the men beat their chests to prove how manly they are, and pass on these neanderthal sports
Australian Rugby is just broken
These injuries have nothing to do with Australian rugby
Connor was playing in a new position?
Wow! all this for a sport.
So i wonder....what is the solution? It's a few boys out of tens of thousands perhaps more that play the sport without such injuries. Do we ban the sport for high school kids? Do we change the rules and make it less contact? Perhaps protective gear? I don't know. Do we ban contact sports all together?
I'm almost certain that both Conor and Ollie don't want to change the sport at all, maybe they do. But I can't help but think about surfers that sometimes get attacked by sharks. They don't want to kill the sharks, they accept it as a potential risk.
I hope both you guys make as full of a recovery as is possible and if nothing else, I'm sure you will be friends for life.
Played Rugby for almost my entire childhood, and your response is basically the be all end all unfortunately. It's a risk. If i went back to childhood, I'd play for another 13 years all over again. Loved it. Still feel for these families though, fucken horrible stroke of bad luck.
I still don’t feel there’s enough injury prevention for rugby. Even though playing rugby is a risk there is so much that could be done to prevent serious injuries. Coming from a player who will suffer life long (less severe) injuries
The problem is that they where under aged and not really capable of making decisions like this. I'm not saying they should ban, but if I was a parent I definitely would not let my children play sports with a risk like this until they are 18 or the injuries would 100% be my fault.
It's like sending them to war.
I am American and our football is dangerous. So is rugby.
Always be careful in any physically demanding sport.
They should have weight-class instead of comparing their ages, just like Boxing and UFC sports.
Any sport can b dangerous to its players & coaches..As long the players & coaches know the rules.. 🏈 ⚾️ & 🏀 .. could end up hurt for life.. but the players know what they r getting.. if u want be pro athlete.. 🏈 players give a lot to become super ball champs but they would almost always say thanks to a coaches most 🏈 careers are shorter because they get hit more than others most of them are lasting now 8 to 10 years and they call it a career. For baseball it’s different they have many weeks to go through when they finally become pro it’s more play every day ffor regular players and pichers they They get paid to play every five days. Basketball it’s more play every other day and hope you get noticed and you get paid more to be high end player.. all these guys get seriously hurt until they can’t go on anymore..
Me pregunto si la pasión por el rugby vale tanto la pena como para correr el riesgo de quedar en una silla de ruedas para toda la vida.
Que estúpido el ser humano no?
Lots of sports can be dangerous but rugby I think is the worst and boys should be banned from playing it. Even 5 year olds play and it’s so wrong.
Even with a Helmet that a dangerous game like the doctor prove
What you can do? You can ban the stupid bloody sport. And men need to stop encouraging their sons to risk spinal injury. All the tackling is with head down, around the shoulders and neck, and those stupid scrums wtf they all press down on each others shoulders/necks/backs. Someone needs to grow some balls and ban it, same as boxing. End of story
I'm sort of confused too, was it worth it for the parents to put or let their sons play what seems like a fairly high risk sport? Okay possible couldn't stop them. Shouldnt sports be about health and fun, I don't understand how people think injuries like this are worth it in a sport? I'm sure the boys will still do great as they seem like fighters and have very supportive families but to have injuries like this for life when you're young specially can't be easy and limits your life too.
@@teijaflink2226 parents mostly encourage their children into particular sports, for a variety of reasons, concenience (location), they love the sport or cost etc. Boxing is worse. I don't understand how that hasn't been banned. Thanks for your reply btw
Don't play rugby guys. It's violent
You should play football😁
Red From Mars soccer players always over react about injuries normal footy players are tough like these boys
Totally agree - footballers don’t get these serious injuries. Rugby is too violent
Because its a violent sport.
Right?? When I read the title, I thought, ".... Because it's effin rugby, for Christ's sake."
Love Rugby.......Thats the risk........Just like Skydiving ,everything has a risk.
Friday the 13th??😮 oh gosh :/
i look for help, a stroke victim, no money.
It could have been avoided. You just don't play rugby.
Greg Kelly Rugby is a great game these are just freak accidents
Here’s a concept to consider... Do stupid stuff and you will likely get hurt 🤕 Look after your body and you will likely not get hurt 😀 It’s really not that difficult 👍🏼
More savage than north american football but without any kind of protection......
It's Sean here? Don't you mean dad here??
Obviously not, otherwise he would've said "it's Dad here".
Yeah, I was confused by that too. It seems to be the popular thing these days to call a parent by their Christian name. It seems disrespectful to me. Unless he is a Step Dad? Either way I wish both of these boys well and a full recovery.
God bless you all. Wouldn't wearing helmets help at all? I'm from America so I don't understand rugby but something has to be done!!!!
Karla K Fox they broke their necks. A helmet would only prevent head injuries. Not spinal cord injuries
At that age bones are not fully developed and are still susceptible to these type of injuries. To simplify it by saying it's ""just part of life" is really not the best way to approach this. Full bone-crunching contact sport is a very risky thing in any circumstance. Now there are the implications of CTE for head contact. Helmets should be mandatory across Rugby (both codes), AFL, Football (soccer) and every other full contact sport with the risk of this type of outcome. It really is a devastating thing but with support and advances in spinal cord injury treatments who knows what the future holds.
Why anyone wouldchoose to play Rugby Union when they could play league is beyond me..
what... you think the same injury wouldn't happen in League? Besides League isnt recognized on a global scale as Union.
The sport of rugby union should be banned in Australia.
Does rugby have the traumatic brain injury that are seen in football?
People die in car accidents so do you stop driving? Guess not...
How stupid. Losing your health over a stupid ball!
Accidents but these two boys look like they needed to hit the gym, build some muscle mass. However, still may not have changed anything.
Parents must be mad to let their kids play this awful sport.
What kind of parents allow their children to play this sport??!! And then be devastated when their children are hurt?!! Why not just push them in front of oncoming traffic?!