A Woman Was Paralyzed After Doing Sit-Ups

Sit-ups are such a regular strength-training exercise, you ne'er suppose you may be seriously burned doing one. However that is what happened to a 23-year-old Brazilian law graduate and fitness model—and her recovery has been nothing in need of miraculous.
In January 2016, Marcelle Mancuso was at the gymnasium doing inverted sit-ups (which suggests that your ankles are within the air high and your head lower close to the floor) whereas strapped into a bench. A trainer World Health Organization was recognizing her conjointly control her feet as she did her sit-ups.
“The band that control my feet bust and that i hit my head on the ground, breaking the cervical spine and right away became tetraplegic,” she tells Health . “I lost all movement from the neck down.”