Girl, 13, makes ‘amazing’ recovery after being ‘broken in half’ from horse fall
Medics feared that Aliza Rae AliKhan would not walk again after the accident.
A teenage girl who was “broken in half” after falling from her horse and told that she might never walk again has made an “amazing” recovery by walking out of hospital unaided.
Aliza Rae AliKhan was rushed into emergency spinal surgery after her horse was spooked and fell on top of her in the accident in August last year.
At the time, medics at Southampton Children’s Hospital (SCH) warned the parents of the 13-year-old “to prepare for the worst” because of the severity of her injuries.
But seven months later, Aliza Rae is back at school and also riding again.
Evan Davies, consultant spinal surgeon at SCH, explained the emergency operation involved stabilising her spine with metal rods and removing fractured bone to reduce the pressure on the spinal canal.
He said: “When Aliza arrived in the hospital, she was, for use of a better word, broken in half – her top half wasn’t connected to the bottom half.
