1.   Hip fractures are potentially life threatening, while crushed spinal vertebrae may lead to back pain, loss of height and mobility, and eventually curvature of the spine.

2.   At the Middlesex School he played varsity football, until a downfield collision cost him a kidney and several crushed vertebrae.

3.   He had rods and screws in his back from surgeries to fuse crushed vertebrae.

4.   He was bleeding heavily from a gash on the head and later would learn he also had a crushed vertebrae.

5.   Then it got worse, and his personal doctor discovered a crushed vertebra.

6.   She likens an X-ray of her crushed vertebrae to the delicate pattern of Chantilly lace.

7.   She suffered two crushed vertebrae and was paralyzed from the waist down.