Teen ballerina snaps leg after being forced into difficult pose

A teenage ballerina has captured the horrific moment her leg bone loudly snapped after being forced into a difficult pose. WARNING: Graphic

WARNING: Graphic

A teenage ballerina has captured the horrific moment she broke her leg after she claims she was forced into a brutal stretch by her dance teacher.

The 17-year-old student can be seen in the disturbing clip being assisted into a deep split stretch by a group of her colleagues when they suddenly heard a loud cracking sound.

The teen’s leg snapped due to the stretch, and she had to undergo two surgeries to fix the broken bone in her thigh.

Sadly, she will never be able to dance again.

The Yuanlun Education Dance Training Institution teacher in Chongqing, China, offered to pay 50,000 Chinese yuan in compensation, equal to $10,400 AUD.

“At the moment when the bone broke, it was so loud that I thought the chair was broken,” the teen said of the incident, which happened back in March.

The dancer was being forced into a very difficult pose. Picture: Viral Press

Her leg loudly snapped during the stretch. Picture: Viral Press

“But when I turned my head and found that the classmate next to me was crying, I realised that it was my leg.”

It is not uncommon for dancers and athletes to injure themselves during the sport as they push their bodies to the limit.

Back in September 2023, MMA fighter Dylan Reischman suffered what has been called the “worst leg break in MMA history” during a fight with Jaime Mora.

The 21-year-old attempted to defend a take-down midway through the second round as Mora hoisted him aloft and then tried to drive him to the mat.

That is when the American’s left leg got caught at an awkward angle underneath the two bodies and loudly snapped in half.

The fighter suffered what has been called the worst leg injury in MMA history. Picture: X

Reischman started screaming and immediately drew the referee’s attention to the injury before the official immediately ended the fight.

An emotional Mora put his head in his hands while footage showed the bone in his opponent’s leg nearly piercing through the top of his knee.

On another occasion, an American bride was simply enjoying her first dance with her new husband on her wedding day when she suffered a painful injury.

Julie Benn and Paul Richter had just exchanged vows before taking to the floor at the reception for their first dance back in July 2021.

Julie Benn and Paul Richter were over the moon to be getting married. Picture: TikTok / @liz_richter

But during their first dance the bride dislocated her knee in a freak accident. Picture: TikTok / @liz_richter

But as the groom dipped his new bride, she ended up dislocating her knee in a freak accident.

Julie can be seen limping in pain as her concerned husband leads her off the dance floor to seek help.

The bride said she knew instantly something was wrong and she was left “screaming” in agony over the injury.

“I have a lot of respect for athletes who play through their injuries,” she said.

“I never dislocated a knee. I broke a bone when I was a kid, but nothing else.

“So it was shocking, disbelief.”

After dosing her up with pain killers and resetting her knee, Julie decided to return to her wedding after being discharged from the hospital later that night.

Originally published as Teen ballerina snaps leg after being forced into difficult pose