Tried to send you an email in response to your post, but you have your email turned off. Took a big biff "finesse riding" blue ice bumps on a PJ about 10 years ago. Even though I had hockey shorts on under my snowboard clothes, I could not feel my right leg for about six weeks, but the pain was not too bad. The leg funtioned fine. It was sort of fun riding with a "dead" rear leg until everything got back to normal - walking down stairs on dry land was the problem. The bumps are soft now, why not pad youself up and get back on the horse? - ghost