In March, University of Oregon law school student Roma Pawelek suffered a pinched nerve in her neck that caused pain to shoot down her shoulder.
The culprit? An illegal “neck crank” that Pawelek received while training with a partner at a local gym. Injury is the price one pays to enter the world of MMA fighting.
"If you're not getting hurt,” Pawelek said, “you're probably not training hard enough."