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Gym addict left paralysed after 70kg weight fell on her
A gym addict was left paralysed when a 70kg weight fell on her after she slipped while using a squat machine.
Student, Sophie Butler, 21, was using the same squatting machine she had used nearly everyday for two years when she lost her footing causing the weight to fall on her, fracturing her spine.
The 21-year-old, from Basildon, Essex, was left paralysed and in need of an urgent operation to save any chance she had of being able to walk again.
"It was the same day as I had received my my final university results,” Sophie said.
"I was doing my last set on the machine when I lost my footing and fell to the floor with weight in top of me.
"The staff came running over but it wasn't till about 20 minutes later that I started to feel the pain, it was excruciating.
"Someone asked me if I could wiggle my toes and when I couldn't I knew it was serious."
Sophie was rushed in an ambulance to Basildon Hospital, where she was joined by her dad, Dave, and given the news that she had broken her back and that fracture was now pressing on her spinal cord.
Doctors said that Sophie would need emergency surgery within the next 12 hours or she may never be able to walk again.
"By the time I had been taken into hospital I couldn't take the pain, I felt like I wanted to die, just so it would stop,” Sophie said.
“It felt like I was being stabbed."
Sophie was transferred to Queens Hospital in Romford for an eight-hour operation in which surgeons repaired her spine with two metal rods and two metal pins.
But Sophie was determined to not let her injury get in the way of her graduation ceremony.
Having not been able to sit up for six weeks after her operation, determined Sophie crammed one month’s worth of physiotherapy into two weeks and made it to her graduation.
"I knew I would have to go onto the stage in my wheelchair so I asked my dad if he would help me,” she said.
"It was a very proud moment for me, I wanted to make the best out of what had happened."
Doctors have told Sophie that nothing is impossible and there is a chance she may be able to walk again with the help of physiotherapy.
Sophie was later moved to a spinal rehabilitation centre with a specially adapted gym but struggled to regain her confidence when she was left PTSD due to the trauma.
"I wanted to get back in the gym as it had been such a big part of my life before,” Sophie said.
"However, I really struggled when I was in that environment, the sound of a door slamming or a bang would take me back to that moment when the weight fell on me."
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PTPS.
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Smith?
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WYHI of the year.
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seeing chicks in the gym with a death stare and grunting while doing triceps extensions like they're getting ready for the olympia makes me want to vomit, nothing more repulsive than a fitness chick's ''hardcore'' atitude. I don't understand how anybody can date them, fuck yes, but date? ???
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WYHI of the year.
Waiting on reply from Henda.
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Put some more wheels on the chair and I'll gladly run a train on her.
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A gym addict was left paralysed when a 70kg weight fell on her after she slipped while using a squat machine.
Gym addict? ??? She looks like she never touched a weight in her life.
Women need to stay home, barefoot, pregnant, clean the house and make dinners.
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A gym addict was left paralysed when a 70kg weight fell on her after she slipped while using a squat machine.
Gym addict? ??? She looks like she never touched a weight in her life.
Most women who claim to be "gym addicts" look no different to the average slim woman who doesn't work out.
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another squat victim
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A gym addict was left paralysed when a 70kg weight fell on her after she slipped while using a squat machine.
Gym addict? ??? She looks like she never touched a weight in her life.
Women need to stay home, barefoot, pregnant, clean the house and make dinners.
Exactly
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Chic tried to warn people, but no one would listen.
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Waiting on reply from Henda.
Would hit both versions, perhaps the wheelchair version more enthusiastically excitedly running while pushing her towards the bedroom before stopping suddenly and tipping her out of the chair in a crumpled heap on the bed ready for passionate lovemaking.
In all seriousness poor lass hope she gets better and can walk again
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seeing chicks in the gym with a death stare and grunting while doing triceps extensions like they're getting ready for the olympia makes me want to vomit, nothing more repulsive than a fitness chick's ''hardcore'' atitude. I don't understand how anybody can date them, fuck yes, but date? ???
same with guys too.
I like this video from Dave Tate
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Gym Shark pants says it all!!! Generation Nothing!!!
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Would hit both versions, perhaps the wheelchair version more enthusiastically excitedly running while pushing her towards the bedroom before stopping suddenly and tipping her out of the chair in a crumpled heap on the bed ready for passionate lovemaking.
In all seriousness poor lass hope she gets better and can walk again
Brilliant.
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Something similar happened at a gym I used to go to. I wasn't there for this, but I was pretty close to the trainers and the owner and they told me how it all happened. A girl who couldn't have weighed more than 130# put 405 on the bar to squat and her dumbass boyfriend was spotting her. She unracked it, and the weight came tumbling down on her. She broke her femur and fractured her spine. I'm not sure if she's permanently paralyzed but I'm betting she was wheelchair-bound for a while...
One of the female trainers couldn't had to walk out as they were telling me the story. She said it was the most horrific thing she's ever seen IRL.
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Tate's blood pressure is looking pretty high these days.
mentioned it before, I hate all the new MEME's (Going to war, Going to battle, killing shit, etc).
Really silly, really embarrassing... ::)
Hopefully the gal walks again...
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PTSD ::) ::) ::) ::) ::)
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another squat victim
If she had done real squats in a power rack, the pins would've saved her. But anyone "losing their footing" is beyond hope.
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If she had done real squats in a power rack, the pins would've saved her. But anyone "losing their footing" is beyond hope.
we have this little 70 year old brooks hatlen guy that works at my gym as a janitor, he's perpetually walking around swiffering up every spec of chalk or dust he can see, eventually folks started to complain because he'd make the platforms slippery
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A gym addict was left paralysed when a 70kg weight fell on her after she slipped while using a squat machine.
Gym addict? ??? She looks like she never touched a weight in her life.
Women need to stay home, barefoot, pregnant, clean the house and make dinners.
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Tight as a marshmallow
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Girl Power!!
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Most women who claim to be "gym addicts" look no different to the average slim woman who doesn't work out.
The same is true of most men, though. Well, except for "slim", it would be "obese" or "morbidly obese".
As for the title of this thread, gyms can be dangerous places, regardless of gender. I know OP was just looking for another excuse to take out his frustration over his 2-incher, but guys get injured all the time working out.
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Something similar happened at a gym I used to go to. I wasn't there for this, but I was pretty close to the trainers and the owner and they told me how it all happened. A girl who couldn't have weighed more than 130# put 405 on the bar to squat and her dumbass boyfriend was spotting her. She unracked it, and the weight came tumbling down on her. She broke her femur and fractured her spine. I'm not sure if she's permanently paralyzed but I'm betting she was wheelchair-bound for a while...
One of the female trainers couldn't had to walk out as they were telling me the story. She said it was the most horrific thing she's ever seen IRL.
what an ass
he should be executed
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The same is true of most men, though. Well, except for "slim", it would be "obese" or "morbidly obese".
As for the title of this thread, gyms can be dangerous places, regardless of gender. I know OP was just looking for another excuse to take out his frustration over his 2-incher, but guys get injured all the time working out.
All 56 of them?
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All 56 of them?
Im gender fluid, gyms are a fucking minefield.....
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Saw a tiny girl , real fine ass , doing dead’s off the floor yesterday
Slamming the shit off the floor - the whole 135lbs
Would of been 10x’s hotter if she just picked up the 120lb barbell and did SLDLs
Bet her boyfriend taught her , “he’s big , just not as big as you , he doesn’t need to be REAL big” ????
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Way too much makeup, no ass, shitty unhealthy looking dyed hair and goes to the gym every day.
Brits try way too hard to look 'good'.
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Girl Power!!
female genova?
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Did her feet slip out on a hack machine?
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Most women who claim to be "gym addicts" look no different to the average slim woman who doesn't work out.
I've noticed this too. My only explanation is that only people with average or less than average genetics become addicted. No one with great genetics needs to live in the gym to look great. These "gym addicts" normally look decent but usually never look great.