Joel Hentrich (35) : I almost died after turning my head too fast playing pickleball (Jan'23)

A “super-fit” dad is lucky to be alive after tearing a neck artery and suffering three strokes all because he turned his head “too quickly.” “I was in complete shock and disbelief,” Joel Hentrich, 35, told SWNS of the freak accident. “You don’t think that these things will actually happen to you.” The fiasco occurred Nov. 23, 2022 while the native of Festus, Missouri, and his pals were playing pickleball, a racket sport that’s similar to tennis but with smaller paddles.

“I went out there that day and was just playing a regular game, nothing strenuous,” said the father of four and registered nurse, who played several times per week after taking up the hobby a few years ago. Things turned disastrous, however, when Hentrich turned his head “quickly to the left to try and track a ball. I felt a pop in the back of my neck,” the alarmed pickleballer described. “I wasn’t sure if anyone else could hear it — but internally I could.”

https://nypost.com/2023/01/11/i-almost-died-after-turning-head-too-fast-playing-pickleball/