Evel Knievel’s Injuries

Posted by Miss Cellania in Medicine on December 6, 2007 at 2:01 pm


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Over 16 years of performing, stuntman Evel Knievel was injured numerous times and had the scars to prove it. Various accounts chronicle a range from 37 broken bones over his career to 431 breaks in one season! Steve Mandich has a look back at the different reports on Knievel’s various injuries. Link -via Reddit




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7 comments to "Evel Knievel’s Injuries"

  1. ruby
    December 6th, 2007 at 4:07 pm

    My ex-husband’s friend, Bob, was in contact with him over the years. Bob was in a motorcycle accident and was declared dead. Someone noticed he had a shallow breath, he was resuscitated and began a long, long path to healing . He was in alot of pain even after the bones knitted together. He got into contact with the stuntman and they wrote back and forth. He was told to take blackstrap molasses to regenerate and heal his body. He tried it and it worked. He was able to go back to work pain free! I will always think of that when he comes to mind!

    Rest your soul!

  2. elizabeth
    December 7th, 2007 at 12:41 am

    No broken fingers? Impressive.

  3. Mel Phistopheles
    December 7th, 2007 at 9:32 am

    This may be obvious, but wouldn’t it be much easier to list the few bones he didn’t break?

  4. ryan
    December 7th, 2007 at 1:09 pm

    @ elizabeth
    He may have just splinted them himself and shrugged it off. After breaking your femur five times, I imagine a broken finger is just a scratch.

  5. 4thwave
    December 7th, 2007 at 5:36 pm

    Okay I won’t cry like a baby, when I hurt myself.

    Make note: eat blackstrap molasses

  6. XuYu
    December 10th, 2007 at 12:22 am

    Ouch — my coccyx!

  7. eggshaped
    December 10th, 2007 at 4:49 am

    I’ve been trying to nail this down for years. I once read that the only world record still held by Kneivel (all his jumping ones having been superceded) was “most number of bones broken”. Does anyone know if this is true?


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