A Chinese dance move is leaving children permanently paralysed
2 months ago924 min
These are some killer dance moves, quite literally. In a recent study by the Chinese Orthopaedic Association, it was revealed that the percentage of spinal cord injuries caused by the backbend exploded from just 4 per cent between 1992 and 2002 to a whopping 33.9 per cent between 2015 and 2019. The backbend, which is a crucial move in the Chinese folk dance, is the main cause of these injuries in children as young as five and...