Scarlett Espinoza, 38, had been doing handstands against a wall for years, as part of her yoga practice.

One day in July 2024, she was organizing her Miami-area home. She had placed some items in front of her usual handstand wall. So, she decided to practice against her laundry room door instead. That turned out to be a life-altering decision.

“I checked to make sure the door was closed,” she tells TODAY.com. “But my hip hit the handle and the door flew open. I freaked out immediately, because I don’t know how to land that way.”

When she fell, she wedged her ankle between her washer and dryer. “I didn’t think it was broken, but it looked a little off. I moved it back to straight and I heard a clicking sound, and it clicked back to that weird position,” she says.

She couldn’t put any we

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