The 32-year-old from Melbourne landed hard on her coccyx and fractured her L1 vertebrae. She was transported to a hospital in Tbilisi, where scans confirmed the injury.

Hamlin suffered a compression fracture to his L1 vertebra, which is in the lower back, while Almirola's injury is behind his chest.

In March, Tyler Bradt crushed his L1 vertebrae after landing flat off of Oregon’s 100-foot Abiqua Falls. Three days shy of the five-month anniversary of that accident, on Aug. 17, Bradt—the 25 ...

OSHAWA — Just before they closed the incision after a six-hour operation to repair his shattered spine, surgeons at Toronto Western Hospital asked John Picco’s parents if they could try something ...

A special vertebral body stent was placed in the fractured L1 vertebra via the pedicle, a small opening at the back, and expanded using a balloon, similar to cardiac angioplasty, Unnikrishnan said.

Valencia suffered a lacerated liver, broken ribs, a broken wrist and an L1 vertebrae fracture. A lifelong circus performer, he began working with this specific stunt 30 years ago when he "married ...

On October 18th, Chad Dennis fractured his L1 vertebrae when his car spun out of control on a poorly lit gravel road and flipped four times. The next day, he got married. Dennis' car landed upside ...

In a freak accident on March 29, 2017, I fell 40 feet; breaking the L1 vertebrae and the ulna and radius bones in my arm. Luckily, I don’t remember the fall or much of what happened after.