For the past seven years, professional mountain bike rider Aaron Chase has suffered chronic back pain owed to a piece of metal hardware, installed in his spine.
Chase: “In 2007, I was competing at a contest and I fell off of this eleveated walkway,” Chase recalled of the life-changing accident. “The unthinkable happened: I crushed my L1 [vertabrae], it dinged my spinal cord and I temporarily lost function in my — I was paralyzed.”
Suffering from nagging pain, Chase finally decided to undergo another medical procedure to have all the seven-year-old hardware removed and brought along a host of GoPro cameras to record it.
In the video above, Dr. Robert Bray of D.I.S.C Sports and Spine Center leads a precise medical procedure to remove all the old steel screws and bolts.
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