Big E neck break: WWE star returns home from hospital after horror injury

Good news to bring you, as Big E has said that he has been discharged from hospital and is now back home after breaking his neck last week.

On last week’s episode of Friday Night SmackDown, Big E landed right on his head following a suplex from Ridge Holland on the outside of the ring.

There was a lot of concern from fans, and Big E confirmed shortly afterwards on Twitter that he’d broken his neck.

The following day, the former WWE Champion informed fans that he’d fractured his C1 and C6, but thankfully would not need surgery.

E explained that he suffered no ligament damage and no damage to his spinal cord, which was certainly good news considering how bad broken necks can be.

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And in another positive update, all things concerned, Big E has revealed that he has left the hospital in Birmingham and he’s now back home.

Big E posted the update onto Twitter yesterday, but said that Birmingham took good care of him while he was there in the hospital.

Appreciate you, man. I’m actually home now but Birmingham took good care of me.

While he may not need surgery, the road to recovery will not be an easy or simple one for Big E, as is the case with any neck break.

While every case is different, things could be simply more complicated for Big E considering he fractured his C1.

Sports doctor David Chao, in an article on Outkick.com over the weekend, explained just how bad C1 injuries can be.

The C1 fracture is most dangerous as the top cervical vertebrae is a ring and is commonly associated with immediate death or complete paralysis.

Chao said that the injury doesn’t always heal properly, in fact, it’s quite common that it doesn’t, meaning that E may never be able to wrestle again:

This type of fracture