"A little trick for my fellow ambulance personnel. After an accident people will often feel fine and this is the effects of adrenaline pumping around the body. Then, as the adrenaline leaves the bloodstream, the person becomes a lot more 'shaky', and may feel sick. It's best to wait until this 'shaky' time is over before you leave them. Sometimes the effects of this will let you persuade the patient to come to hospital." I experienced exactly this after falling from the horse and breaking my leg. Apart from being concussed I felt fine at first, but after about 20 mins I was shivering and shakey. At first I could hardly feel the pain in my leg. As I'd probably been KO'd and despite the fact I was sat up the crew decided to collar and board me just in case. They explained that the pain of the fracture could be hiding pain in my back and neck. I also felt rather sickly which wasn't good for going in a helicopter. I also couldn't have any morphine as this has made me badly sick in the past so they didn't want to risk it even with the anti sickness drugs they'd given me. It turned out my back and neck were fine, but I'm glad they took the precaution, even if it did mean I didn't get to see the view from the chopper!