Venezuelan opposition leader and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, Maria Corina Machado, has reportedly suffered a fractured vertebra after escaping her home country on a fishing boat
i mean she is pushing 60 likely never done any exercise so it’s very plausible she can get a major injury from just slipping. tho media is framing it as if she had endured an epic escape and barely got away lmao.
Spinal compression is also a very real possibility. 50+km on a skiff through the open ocean, big chance you can hit some waves at some point. After cresting over a wave, boat slams back down onto the ocean hard, spinal compression = minor fracture.
i mean she is pushing 60 likely never done any exercise so it’s very plausible she can get a major injury from just slipping. tho media is framing it as if she had endured an epic escape and barely got away lmao.
Spinal compression is also a very real possibility. 50+km on a skiff through the open ocean, big chance you can hit some waves at some point. After cresting over a wave, boat slams back down onto the ocean hard, spinal compression = minor fracture.