Thor actor Chris Hemsworth seeks hospital treatment for back injury

He may play an all-powerful god on screen, but Hollywood superstar Chris Hemsworth showed he was a mere mortal recently, heading to hospital with a sore back.

He may play an indestructible superpower on the big screen but Chris Hemsworth proved he is still a mere mortal in real life after seeking emergency medical treatment.

Sunday Confidential can reveal Hemsworth, 37, was recently transported to a private hospital on the Gold Coast from his home in Byron Bay after breaking down with an acute back injury.

Thor star Chris Hemsworth graces the cover of the returned Men’s Health Australia. Picture: Georges Antoni

It’s not known exactly how Hemsworth sustained the injury, however the super-buff Marvel superstar has been undergoing a very public physical transformation recently as he prepared to shoot Thor 4 — now currently under way in Sydney.

It’s understood specialist doctors on the Gold Coast administered cortisone injections into Hemsworth’s back to relieve severe pain and swelling during his brief hospital
stay. He was discharged after just a few hours and did not stay overnight.

The relaunched Men’s Health. Pictures: Georges Antoni

Hemsworth has been getting in shape for Thor: Love and Thunder.

Asked why Hemsworth was forced to seek treatment on the Gold Coast and not at Byron Bay Hospital, a source close to the actor said that facilities in Byron “were not adequate”.

“For what he needed, he had to go to the Gold Coast,” a spy said. “It was a specialist pain problem.”

Meanwhile, a fit and healthy Hemsworth is doing what he does best on the glossy cover of Men’s Health Australia to be released on Monday, when the mag relaunches following its closure in July last year.

Hemsworth as Thor in Avengers: Endgame. Picture: Marvel Studios

Flexing his million-dollar muscles, something he has become very accustomed to of late, the Thor: Love And Thunder star reveals he had a hand in the decision to shoot the Marvel action blockbuster in Australia in an interview with the magazine.

Originally, he says, Disney was also considering filming locations in the UK and US.

“That was going to be in Atlanta or the UK and I was kind of digging my heels in and saying, ‘This is the best place in the world to shoot’,” he said.

“This is pre-COVID. And then eventually they said, ‘OK, cool. We can make it work’.”