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5 weeks, 3 days

I've decided to start a blog on my experiences with my halo cervical neck brace.

I've searched and searched for other peoples experiences and can't find much. There are a lot of questions being asked and not a lot of answers. I will attempt to be as honest as possible about my experience in the hopes that someone finds this and makes their stay in the brace a little bit easier.

I was fitted with a cervical neck brace, also known as a Halo, on October 18, 2009. One day after my very very bad motorcycle crash.

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  1. UnknownOctober 1, 2013 at 2:17 PM

    This is so wierd...ok maybe not that wierd but still. My name is also Katie (yours is Kate, right) and I got a halo brace on October 17. Kinda a coincidence. I think this was a really great thing of you to do as, like you say, there aren't many 'answers' around about halo braces, something that at the time, I really struggled with. I had/ have never met anyone else with a halo and even though I was at an amazing hospital, even some of the doctors and most of the nurses were unfamiliar with such a contraption. Good on you and I hope you're all better now!

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