In January 2016, law student Marcelle Mancuso was going through her normal workout at her gym in Brazil when something went terribly wrong. The 23-year-old law school graduate was doing an inverted ...

A fitness fanatic was temporarily paralyzed from the neck down after a gym accident. Marcelle Mancuso, a 23-year-old from Brazil, was doing an inverted sit-up at her gym in Rio when the strap holding ...

When 23-year-old Marcelle Mancuso fell while doing an upside-down—or 'inverted'—sit-up in the gym in São José do Rio Preto, Brazil, in January 2016, doctors feared she would never walk again. But a ...

You read about the importance of good form all the time and try to remember to keep your chest up for squats and your knees in line with your toes for lunges. But other than that, form usually isn't ...

A Brazilian fitness fanatic was left paralysed from the neck down after falling on her head while attempting an ‘inverted’ sit-up at the gym. Marcelle Mancuso, 23, broke a vertebrae after she slipped ...

A fitness fanatic was left paralyzed from the neck down after falling on her head while doing an inverted sit-up at the gym. Marcelle Mancuso, 23, broke a vertebrae after slipping off a bench while ...

While doing an inverted sit-up — a move that requires hanging upside down from an apparatus and doing sit-ups in that inverted position, the strap holding Marcelle Mancuso’s legs above her body broke.