{"id":43661,"date":"2021-03-11T11:12:44","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T12:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=43661"},"modified":"2021-03-11T19:57:41","modified_gmt":"2021-03-11T19:57:41","slug":"burgess-taken-to-hospital-with-burner-neck-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=43661","title":{"rendered":"Burgess taken to hospital with &#039;burner&#039; neck injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Sydney Rabbitohs star Tom Burgess has been taken to hospital <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/live-scores-2021-melbourne-storm-vs-south-sydney-rabbitohs-start-time-results-news-round-one\/f4ff520f-5716-4023-939c-2c5a34be6c05\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" title=\"after suffering a concerning neck injury late in his side&#x27;s loss to Melbourne.\">after suffering a concerning neck injury late in his side&#x27;s loss to Melbourne.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Rabbitohs confirmed Burgess had been taken to hospital as a precautionary step after the forward appeared to sustain a painful burner-type neck injury.<\/p>\n<p>South Sydney also confirmed Burgess had suffered a number of similar neck injuries last season but were concerned with the severity of Thursday night&#x27;s incident.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"ef0b830f-7234-4d1e-b294-866e09dd21a8\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/ef0b830f-7234-4d1e-b294-866e09dd21a8\" alt=\"Tom Burgess suffers a concerning neck injury. (Getty)\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&quot;The good news is he is moving his arms and his legs,&quot; Nine&#x27;s sideline reporter Danika Mason confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We have also been told that he is in quite a lot of pain so he will be continued to be monitored.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nrlphysio\/status\/1369972118117519362?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-twitter\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/nrlphysio\/status\/1369972118117519362?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Burgess lay wincing on his back in the final five minutes of the NRL season opener, causing play to halt for some time as he was tended to by trainers.<\/p>\n<p>He was eventually stretchered off by the Medicab with what Phil Gould and Andrew Johns described as burning nerve pain in the neck.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by clicking here! \" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by clicking here!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>South Sydney Rabbitohs star Tom Burgess has been taken to hospital after suffering a concerning neck injury late in his side&#x27;s loss to Melbourne. The <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=43661\" title=\"Burgess taken to hospital with &#039;burner&#039; neck injury\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43661"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43661"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43663,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43661\/revisions\/43663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}