), and unfortunately, some injuries have been both competition- and life-altering.
Here are the most gut-wrenching injuries in the show’s history.
She was fiery, competitive, and had a dance style that was fully her own.
That was a mistake, and within a few days, Mai was rushed into emergency throat surgery.
“I stayed consistent and rescheduled the rehearsal with Brandon.
The next morning, Mai couldn’t breathe.
“I was literally like gasping for air,” Mai said of her health scare.
Mai is mended, and isexpecting a babyas of publication, but talk about a scary circumstance.
“The second I landed, I felt the shards in my arm,” she said.
There’s a little bone at the thumb that usually posts one way.
Mine was in the opposite direction.
The extent of Brinkley’s injury was significant.
In addition to that horrific injury, Brinkley also suffered from a dislocated wrist and twisted ankle.
But what about when your blood vessel health gets involved?
Bindi Irwin and her partner, Derek Hough, went on to win the season, perThe Guardian.
He toldPeoplethat during rehearsal, Burgess had spun into him, resulting in a pretty awful-sounding dental injury.
“There was blood and a tooth.
I still don’t know what I’m doing.
“You know, things aren’t supposed to bend certain ways,” he said.
“It was a little sore at first.
I could not put weight on it,” Bristowe shared.
“I just broke into tears and I went straight to physical therapy.”
She shared that at one point, she just curled up on the couch and cried.
But Bristowe persevered even though she was advised to stay out of the competition.
“My heart was broken.
I was like, ‘I don’t even care …
I still have to dance through it.’
“I’m so proud that she got through it,” Savchenko said of Alaina’s performance.
We’re just hoping that she got some rest.
“We just kept pushing through,” Lewis said of his experience with pro dance partner Cheryl Burke.
“One day it was unbearable; it was shooting up my leg.
I’ve lived with pain, but something’s wrong.
I went and saw the doctor and had an MRI,” Lewis said.
“I am being very proactive in healing up so I can continue this journey.”
She made the announcement at the closing of the show’s first round of eliminations.
“I realized this isn’t just a muscle thing,” she said.
Having suffered from chronic back pain, Williams toldE!
Newsat the time that his doctor had recommended his withdrawal from the competition.
News how “tough” the decision was to bow out of the contest.
“It’s chronic, it’s arthritic.
Despite his departure, he still had nothing but nice things to say about the show.
“It was fantastic!”
Williams said of his time on “Dancing With the Stars.”
“A spasm is just, like, the worst pain known to man.
It’s like an extreme form of paralysis,” Arlen said.
As noted byToday, O’Dell’s injury wasn’t as simple as a tweak in her muscle, either.
She had torn her meniscus in not one, but two places and required surgery as a result.
“But I have torn the meniscus in my knee in two places, which requires surgery.
“Although short, it was a great experience.
I challenged myself to take [a] risk at doing something I had never done before!”
“I ruptured my Achilles tendon and from that point on I knew I couldn’t continue.
I’m out and I’m really bummed,” she said.
“We don’t know why these things happen.
They could happen to anyone.
I feel like I was only just beginning here.”
“I feel great!”
Rigsby said of his diagnosis and recovery, as noted byPeople.
