Hard to watch: Acrobatic plummeted from high altitude during competition and may remain paralyzed

A trapeze artist from Russia fears she will never be able to walk again after falling from 8 feet to the floor during a stunt she performed in an international competition. The awful moment was documented in cameras

Hard to watch: Acrobatic plummeted from high altitude during competition and may remain paralyzed

A trapeze artist from Russia fears she will not be able to walk again, after falling from 8 feet during an international competition. Evgenia Asunova suffered a severe spinal injury that left one of her squads "crushed to pieces" during the second international aerial athletics championship in Riga, Latvia two weeks ago. The accident occurred due to safety equipment that was ripped off while Asunova performed her last stunt, and the film she was hanged on was released. It fell from a great height to the ground on the ground, as a support net was not installed to prevent the painful fall.

Asunova remains hospitalized in a Moscow hospital and is unable to move from her bed without assistance. She is now criticizing the organizers of the competition for their slow response to her help calls and claims there were no doctors present in the sports hall at the time of the accident. The Moscow newspaper "Moskovsky Komsomolts" reported that the Russian Investigation Commission has launched a criminal investigation and that so far it is unclear if Asunova can go again. From her bed she said: "I have two broken vertebrae - the 12th in my chest and the first in the lower back. My spinal cord is damaged. I don't feel the legs or any organ in the pelvic floor. I need a catheter to pee. I don't need any more surgery but I Can't move myself. Expect a long period of restoration in a horizontal position. "

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Asunova woke up after an operation in which two metal sheets and eight screws set her body. She said doctors were unable to give an estimated time frame for her recovery. She wrote on the Web: "You have to accept that everything doesn't happen the way you want it to happen. Tackling it is the hardest thing to do. Sometimes I close my eyes and make my appearance in my head, as if I'm going to perform again. I remember every movement in my music, Every movement, and I even learned to make a point with my fingers in my mind. I have to fight for the ability to get out of bed. Keep fighting every day. " Asunova said she has always loved doing trapeze stunts and is waiting and hoping she can return to full activity soon.