One-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Brad Keselowski has opened up on the most painful injury he's ever suffered...and it didn't happen in a wreck.
The 41-year-old suffered the injury just last month, badly breaking his femur while on a ski trip with his family. He didn't hurt himself on the slopes though; rather slipping on ice while getting out of his vehicle.
Keselowski revealed this week that he also suffered nerve damage in the accident, losing feeling in his right leg between his knee and hip, but says he can now 'almost' walk.
A reminder while you consider that statement: while the 2012 champ will be absent from the Clash at Bowman Gray in three weeks, he intends to race in this year's Daytona 500, just a month from now.
Keselowski: Nothing comes close to leg break
Speaking to Fox Sports' Bob Pockrass this week, Keselowski admitted: "I've been doing this racing thing for a while, and I broke fingers, wrists, ribs, ankle. Before I was in racing, I broke my nose. I've broken a lot of different bones and parts of my body.
"I will tell you, none of them come close to hurting as bad as breaking your femur. It's a very painful injury, but the recovery is actually fairly similar in time and so forth. So I’ve just got to be tough and get through it."
He continued: "When I first had the injury, I had no feeling in my right leg from my knee up to my hip. My foot and ankle and all that was good. My calf was good, but I couldn't feel any of my quad or any of that stuff.
"So all those nerves are slowly reconnecting. They’ve got now to where I can almost walk, which is good, and I can almost lift my leg on my own. So the nerves are starting to reconnect. All the muscles there, everything there's fine, I just got to reconnect all those things."
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