Prumm to go under knife again on Monday
Finally, Katherine Prumm is in a good place.
This time last year the former world motocross champion was in a hospital bed, not knowing if she would walk again after breaking her back in three places.
A lapse of concentration during training caused Prumm to mistime a jump, landing heavily and plummeting three metres off the track.
She landed head-first next to a creek, with her bike crashing down on top of her. Terrifyingly, she could not feel her legs. A displaced vertebra was impinging on her spinal cord.
In a six-hour operation, surgeons repositioned the bone, fused the three fractured vertebrae to adjacent ones and stabilised the area with screws, rods and plates.
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