KHL News: Martin Gerber hospitalized with a serious neck injury

It appears that Martin Gerber has been hospitalized with a serious neck injury during action in a KHL game:

The injury is very serious, Martin can forget about hockey for next 6 months,” said one of the hospital’s doctors, Igor Suvorov. “Thank God the spinal cord was not hurt and there is no threat to his life. Gerber will soon be sent to a special clinics in Podolsk to undergo computed tomography to ensure the spinal cord is not hurt.

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Let’s hope he is ok.  Sounds like an awful injury. 

Update: Russian newspaper Sovetskiy Sport talked with Atlant GM, Andrei Verevko:

Gerber underwent computed tomography. The preliminary diagnosis is a compression fracture of the fourth cervical vertebra. Monday morning Gerber will have an advanced medical examination.

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