Such is the injury Espen Eckbo is operated for Norwegian doctor: – Prospects are good. – Kjendis.no

(Dagbladet): Comedian and TVNorge profile Espen Eckbo (42) was Friday afternoon severely injured in a head-on collision in Italy.

Eckbo and two relatives were on the way to visit the famous Marcialonga ski race when the car they were in ended in a frontal collision. The comedian was flown in an air ambulance to the hospital, where it was ascertained fracture in a vertebra. He remains hospitalized.

TVNorges program director Eivind Landsverk, confirmed to the newspaper Dagbladet that Eckbo has fracture in the fourth vertebra.

– Prospects are good

– I have been informed that Espen Eckbo has fracture in the fourth vertebra. I have not talked to Espen today, but know that it goes well with him, says Landsverk.

The department Sunnaas hospital, Thomas ajar, specializes in the rehabilitation of spinal injuries. He speaks on a general basis, and describe a violation in the fourth vertebra as follows:

– I guess it is about the fourth lumbar vertebra, near the bottom of the spine. As long as you do not damage nerve roots, so it does not seem like that Eckbo has made the prospects are good.

– Normally one can get on our feet after a short time. And make a full recovery.

Screws and rods

Dagbladet has been informed that Eckbo already operated. At an unstable fracture of the fourth vertebra, bone structure must be reinstalled, explains ajar.

– Normally fracture was repositioned and secured by means of screws and rods. It is for that breach slipping, he said.

accident Eckbo was involved in happened in a tunnel in northern Italy, more specifically in Bolzano Trento.

The Italian newspaper Alto Adige, writes that Norwegians crashed with the Italian referee Silvia Monaco, which is also said to have been severely injured in the accident.

Aleksander Lord Stahl, colleague of Espen Eckbo in Seefood, informs Dagbladet that it also goes well with the two slektingene who sat in the car with Espen Eckbo.

– Espen is very positive

He tells Dagbladet that they waited to go out with information about the accident to the situation Espen was stable.

– It happened a few days ago. We have waited to go out with information until we got to know how it went with the operation. It is a serious accident, but it looks as if it’s been really nice.

– Espen is very positive, and we are just happy that it has gone so well, he says to Dagbladet.

It is uncertain what speed the two cars had when they collided. Italian media write that the car of the woman must have come across the wrong way.