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NCBI ROFL: Hula Hooping: Part 2

By ncbi rofl | March 26, 2009 10:18 pm

…or a danger to our grandmothers?

“A 63-year-old woman developed acute back pain and sciatica after playing hula-hoop”

Here are a few words of wisdom, for those of you with young children wanting to hoop it up:


This gem comes from a medical review published in 1959 by ZH Zaidi, “Hula-hoop syndrome“.

CATEGORIZED UNDER: NCBI ROFL, rated G
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