{"id":213647,"date":"2025-10-20T17:51:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T17:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/213647\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T17:51:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T17:51:11","slug":"irish-jockey-micheal-nolan-loses-speech-after-surgery-following-bad-fall-that-damaged-vertebra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/213647\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish jockey Miche\u00e1l Nolan loses speech after surgery following bad fall that damaged vertebra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Carlow jockey Miche\u00e1l Nolan suffered a damaged vertebra following a bad fall at Worcester last week. Photo: PA Wire\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/188a280b-b106-41d7-b925-2f74c0f29d0c.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Carlow jockey Miche\u00e1l Nolan suffered a damaged vertebra following a bad fall at Worcester last week. Photo: PA Wire<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Carlow jump-jockey Miche\u00e1l Nolan is being supported in regaining his voice following a heavy fall at Worcester last week. The rider came to grief aboard Can You Hear Me in a hurdle event at the track on October 15 and was consequently taken to Gloucestershire Royal Hospital for treatment. Emergency surgery was performed successfully but has had the effect of impairing Nolan&#8217;s speech, though his recovery from the injury is otherwise good.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A statement from the Injured Jockeys Fund read: &#8220;Following a fall at Worcester racecourse on Wednesday 15 October, Miche\u00e1l Nolan went to Gloucestershire Royal Hospital. &#8220;He sustained an unstable fracture of his seventh cervical vertebra at the joint with the first thoracic vertebra and underwent emergency surgery to realign and stabilise the affected vertebrae. &#8220;Following successful surgery, Miche\u00e1l is currently experiencing a loss of his voice, a known and usually temporary complication associated with operations performed from the front of the neck, and he will be supported by speech and language specialists. &#8220;The medical team are pleased with his early progress and optimistic about his ongoing recovery. &#8220;Miche\u00e1l and his family are extremely grateful for the excellent care he has received from the staff at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital and the Injured Jockeys Fund, and for the many kind messages of support from the racing community.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carlow jockey Miche\u00e1l Nolan suffered a damaged vertebra following a bad fall at Worcester last week. Photo: PA&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213648,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[3004,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-213647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-racing","tag-racing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}