Man breaks leg while doing yoga in Ireland

In an unusual case, a 38-year-old man in Ireland practicing a difficult yoga pose ended up in the hospital with a broken leg.

The man fractured the thighbone on his right leg while doing a difficult seated yoga pose known as Marichyasana posture B in his morning yoga class, according to a report of the man’s case published in the journal BMJ Case Reports.

The pose involves sitting down, with the knee bent and drawn up to the chest, and then bending the torso toward the floor. When the man got into the position, he heard a loud cracking sound and felt enormous pain in his right femur (thighbone). The pain caused him to collapse on the ground and an ambulance took him to the hospital.

X-rays showed he had a “low-energy femoral shaft fracture”, ‘Live Science’ reported.

The man’s right thighbone was fractured about 4 inches above his knee joint, said Dr Andrew Moriarity, an orthopedic resident at St James’s Hospital in Dublin, Ireland, who treated the man.