Julia Groenhart on the Road to Recovery after Severe Stable Accident

Former international Dutch young rider Julia Groenhart is on the road to recovery after getting severely injured in a barn accident on 24 August 2020.

The 23-year old Groenhart was in a small tractor mucking out stalls when she fell out of the tractor and it flipped on top of her.

She had to be reanimated and was brought to the emergency room of the Erasmus Hospital in Rotterdam. They diagnosed her with a brain bleed and was operated on to fix multiple fractures. She also sustained fractures to several bones in her face as well as to her shin bone and fibula.

The doctors estimated the length of her rehabilitation to nine months to a year.

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