Father-of-two gave himself a blow by cracking his neck so hard that he tore an artery

A family father of two from Oklahoma has suffered a stroke after fracturing his neck while stretching, but he is recovering now.

Josh Hader, 28, was working at home in March when he went to stretch his neck, painful for a week, and heard a slap.

Suddenly, he felt numb and was unable to walk straight.

His father-in-law took him urgently to Guthrie's local emergency room, where the doctors determined that he had been a victim of a cerebrovascular accident.

Hader told DailyMail.com that the doctors had told him that, by cracking his neck, he had twisted it so quickly that he had accidentally torn a blood vessel leading from his neck to his brain, this who had provoked the attack.

Josh Hader, 28, of Guthrie, Oklahoma, was home in March when he fractured his neck, which hurt him. Pictured: Hader with his wife Rebecca, his five-year-old daughter Wrigley and his one-year-old son Oliver

After Hader's nape appeared, his left side felt numb and he could no longer walk straight. His father-in-law then led him to the emergency room. The doctors discovered that the fracture of his neck had caused a tear in an artery to the brain, which had caused his stroke. On the photo: Hader before the shot, on the left, and after the shot, on the right

As soon as he felt the numbness to occur, Hader said that he had gone to the mirror to check his face for signs of a stroke. cerebral.

He used to be an offer from the police and had already seen stroke occurring in others.

"I did not see any subsidence, so I went for a bag of ice and could not walk right," said Hader. "I was literally walking at a 45-degree angle."

He called his wife, Rebecca, who was with her mother at that time. She called her father, who lives nearby, and drove Hader to Mercy Guthrie Hospital.

By the time they arrived at the emergency room, Hader had trouble concentrating and could not move his left side.

"When I went to get a scanner, I could not move from the emergency room to the scanner. I had to have someone to help me, he said.

The doctors determined that he had suffered a stroke, which occurs when an artery or blood vessel that carries oxygen or nutrients until the brain bursts or is obstructed.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 795,000 Americans suffer a stroke every year and kill about 140,000.

Hader has suffered from what is called an ischemic stroke, which occurs when blood flow is blocked to the brain – usually by a blood clot – and constitutes the majority of strokes.

Dr. Vance McCollom, a radiologist at Mercy Hospital and Hader's doctors, told KOCO that Hader had torn his spinal artery, an essential vessel leading to the brain.

"If you have a stroke in this area, you may end up with a patient who is stuck," McCollom said.

"They understand exactly what's going on, but they can not communicate. They can not move anything. They can not speak. They can not breathe.

Although the artery, torn, there was no bleeding in the brain, just a clot.

Hader immediately received tPA, which dissolves a blood clot and improves blood flow to the private brain.

The doctors then transferred him to the Mercy Hospital of Oklahoma City.

Hader spent five days at the USI, then about a week and a half in inpatient rehabilitation.

The stroke did not affect Hader cognitive function, speech or swallowing, but he needed physical and professional therapy to regain balance and relearn how to use his left leg.

He also had a double vision and blurred and had to wear a blindfold on the left eye for three days.

Strangely, Hader also suffered constant hiccups for about two weeks.

"They were bad, nothing could make them leave," he says. "At one point, I could not breathe. I had to sit and suck in air.

Doctors do not really know what causes hiccups, but they believe that Hader's body was simply reacting to a traumatic event.

Hader (pictured) spent five days in the USI and spent a week and a half in inpatient rehabilitation, where he learned to balance and walk with his left leg.

The stroke has not affected Hader's cognitive function, speech or swallowing, but he still has problems with balance and blurred vision. In the photo: Hader X-rays with a pen pointing to the artery that broke out and that caused the stroke

Now, Hader has improved his ability to walk without a walker and no longer hesitates to take care of his five-year-old daughter, Wrigley, and his one-year-old son, Oliver.

It's been a month since her stretching has turned into a stroke – and Hader still has residual effects.

"I still have problems with balance and the walk is exhausting much faster than before," he said.

"In addition, my left side will always peck and, even if the strokes are supposed to touch one side, I do not feel sharp pain, cold or cold in the right arm."

Hader said that he did not advise not to break his neck, but recommended doing so with caution.

"Cutting the neck is not the worst thing, be careful when you do it and realize that your body is not invulnerable," he said.