About Jason Henshall

Jason spent 5 weeks in hospital to be released home to rehabilitate after being told by Doctors and Specialists that he may walk sufficiently to ‘get around’ in the future but would definitely never run or play sports again, Jason spent 9 months in a wheelchair his weight went from 13 stone pre accident to 18 stone.

Jason was determined he would not end up living his life this way and to prove the Doctors wrong did not stop his routine of physio and rehabilitation pushing himself daily to the point of what he describes ‘mind over matter’ to overcome all obstacles. When Jason had his review 15 months after his accident he stunned Doctors explaining he now trained regularly at the gym and was now running 3 miles every other day

About usLocations

Jason stepped up his training regime from this point taking his body past the point ever though possible, regularly keeping fit, playing sports and running.

Unfortunately 4 years later Jason’s passion for Road bikes brought yet more turmoil when yet again another driver caused a serious RTA knocking him from his bike, Jason impacted with a 7” solid steel sign post completely taking it from its base.

His injuries were that severe Jason was taken to Macclesfield Hospital but as the doctors fought to save him he was quickly airlifted to Wythenshaw hospital as the trauma team had a better chance of saving him.

Spending two weeks in Intensive care fighting for his life Jason’s injuries were:

• Internal bleeding – Heamatoma
• 2 Collapsed Lungs
• Torn Bladder
• Crushed Kidney
• Snapped 3 vertebrae

Jason luckily survived his second accident and after 2 weeks being carefully looked after by the amazing Intensive care team and Specialists from Wrightington and Wythenshaw working together at Wythenshaw hospital he was taken into the HD Unit for 2 weeks, not knowing which to treat first it became clear Jason’s Kidney was the main priority, Jason underwent 3 operations to try to repair damage and fix the torn bladder, fitting a stent was hopefully going to save his kidney. Jason was then transferred into Urology.

After intensive Physio and rehabilition Jason learnt to walk with a frame, then progressed to crutches and finally was allowed to leave hospital 6 weeks later to be cared for at home.

Another painful 12 months ahead rehabilitating himself unfortunately led to Jason having to go back into Wythenshaw to undergo major surgery to remove his kidney which was found not to be functioning any more. This led to further complications when his expected 2 hour surgery turned into almost 7 hours when surgeons found all his internal organs and intestines had fused together like glue – this appeared to have happened at the early stages after his second accident when his torn bladder was leaking into his body, this resulted in emergency bowel surgery in which Jason’s intestines had to me removed out of his body to enable the kidney surgeon to remove the kidney without affecting the intestines.

Going from hobbling to walking to running took some considerable time approximately 18 months but Jason refused to be a broken man, and kept pushing forward. Eventually Jason was back to full strength and yet again stunning medics by training again, running and training.