If you break your neck, can you walk or move? How do you know if its a serious neck injury?

He can walk around and move but as soon as he turns his head a certain way he has excrutiating pain....does that help? He doesn't know how he did it......

As long as you don't sever or damage the spinal cord, you can still move and walk and ANY neck injury is serious.

no ucant walk no move,much pain

Breaking of the vertebra has nothing to do with maintaining normal function. That all depends on the damage to the spinal cord. That being said, if you do break vertebra, it is really easy to damage the spinal cord, too

If you break your neck you will know if it's serious or not....you won't have to ask yahoo.

you can still walk but i think that will hurt your neck go to a docter

You know it's serious when you can't move at all. There has been some instances when you can still move, but you've broken one or more of the vertabrae in your neck.
The best way to tell is to have it x-rayed.

if you brake ur neck ur dead

You'd need to get a CT scan or MRI.

Depends on which bone and how bad it is. Talk with your doctor. If you move the wrong way, you could paralize yourself from the neck down. Think Christopher Reeve.

I worked in a nursing home and cared for people who have broken both their necks and thier backs and some can walk and others can't it all depends on how serious it is and how and where the injury is caused. One lady had a special brace screwed into her skull and it went down to her middle back to hip area so she could not move.

You only die from a broken neck is if it severley severs the spinal cord or an artery and there are a few in that area. There are also spinal sacs that contain a fluid that controls the brain and so on and if that gets severed seriously enough it can actually cause death because it is like a posion . My mom had back surgery and the doc slipped and hit her spinal sac in the lower back and she lost all knowledge of who she was and so on. And the doc told us this information about the sac