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Schreurs's injuries go beyond neck and spine; recovery has a route
Schreurs's own Instagram post adds a broken collarbone and broken ribs to the multiple neck and spine fractures. She will stay in Perth for several weeks, then travel back to the Netherlands for further rehabilitation. The injury list is now longer than the one the federation gave, and the recovery has an itinerary.
What this means
Schreurs's stay in Perth now runs several weeks, and her rehabilitation moves to the Netherlands afterwards.
Schreurs describes the crash herself: «My front wheel got caught in a rut, pulling me to the left into the ditch and I crashed hard.» She was taken by ambulance and medical helicopter to hospital in Perth. Spine surgery on Sunday went well, by her own account. Wielerflits describes the neck and spine vertebrae as the most serious of her multiple fractures. Her plan is the Perth stay, then rehabilitation at home. Her closing words: «I am in good hands here and am going to get back to full strength step by step.»
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