Panthers QB Cam Newton's Tough Year Continues, Suffers Lower Back Fractures in Two-car Crash
Cam Newton's frustrating season has taken another unfortunate turn after a horrific-looking traffic accident left the Carolina Panthers quarterback's playing status unclear. Newton escaped life-threatening injuries Tuesday when his truck crashed and overturned following a two-vehicle accident. But he did suffer two fractures in his lower back, leaving his return to the field in question coming off his best game of the season. Newton sustained two transverse process fractures but will not need surgery. Dr. Andrew Hecht, chief of spine surgery at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, said the transverse process is the small bone that sticks out of either side of the vertebrae.
-Dr. Andrew Hecht, Associate Professor, Orthopaedics, Neurosurgery, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai