Yes, it calciumated to where it doesn’t move BUT it is still broke and still bothers me alot. I was also warned to never hit my forehead at an angle that would push my head backwards for fear that it could jar the calcium or arthurized parts off. ?? The spinal cord is about the size of a persons little finger. Mine is the size of a toothpick. My history is at a medical research clinic in Denver, Colo. because I should be paralized or dead and they don’t know why I’m not either. The human body is a wonderful thing and usually can repair itself to a degree. I am the 2nd person that the Medical people know of that has this brake and still walking as tho it wasn’t. It took time to get to where it is but as the Docters said, they probably couldn’t have done much with it anyway at that time without haveing a 50–50% that it would work or not.
My neck has limited movement from side to side, about half of what it should be and I have stiffness between my shoulders, my right arm went dead for nearly 4 monthes and I lost alot of muscle mass. I was muscle-bound anyway but that is what saved me, so the doc said. But other then what I have said here, I live a normal life other then haveing it hurt some once in awhile but the Doc also said that I have the pain it’s just that my body has cancelled it out. I do have a lower then normal blood preasure but not to worry and the weather changes tend to effect me more when it comes to the high and low preasures, particularly the low ones. I take 3 Aleve every morning for any aches I may have but then I’ll be 66 years old this April so I don’t blame it all on my neck.
Also, when I broke it, I went a month before I went to a Docter, actually the Hospital emergency but they wouldn’t even look at me so I went to my regular Doc and He called it a muscle spasim and gave me relaxers of some kind tho it didn’t work. I ended up at my Chiropracter and He did the most good by putting the bones below the brake out of place which took the preasure off the brake. I went to him for two monthes every day and I think He is the only one that actually kept me going. Still, I drove a truck, Semi, up until 1991, over-the-road, 3000 miles a week! I guess I am proof that Time heals everything! HA!
Hope this helps.