Kurt Angle Suffering Motor Skill Issues As Neck Injuries Take Toll
WWE Hall of Famer Kurt Angle has opened up about the realities of his devastating neck injuries as his motor skills start to fail.
Kurt Angle has had no shortage of injury issues during his prolific wrestling career. Before he ever set foot in a WWE ring, Angle famously won an Olympic gold medal with a “broken freakin’ neck.” And that neck has caused him issues ever since.
Kurt Angle’s Neck Totally Fused
Speaking on Six Feet Under with The Undertaker and Michelle McCool, Kurt Angle explained his current health status and the worrying symptoms caused by having a neck totally fused together:
I feel pretty good. The only thing that bothers me now is that I have motor skill problems. My hands shake because of my neck, and there’s nothing I can do about it. My neck naturally fused together. I think I already told you that. I don’t have any more discs between my vertebrae.
It’s just all fused together. It’s all bone. I went to have a disc replacement surgery, and the doctor took an MRI. He said, ‘You don’t have any discs. You’re done.’ He said, ‘It’s all fused together. It’s all bone.’
So, I have a hard time. I get pain going down my arms, and I can’t feel either one of my pinkies. They’re gone. So I just have a lot of functional problems. You know, it just sucks that there’s nothing I can do. I tried stem cell, I tried disc replacement. There’s just nothing I have to deal with it.
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