Chinese yoga student wins US$28,800 payout after leg bone snaps in gym
- Shanghai court awards damages for permanent injury to woman who tried to perfect a seated pose
A Shanghai gym was ordered to pay one of its members 195,000 yuan (US$28,800) after she snapped her thigh bone and was permanently injured trying to follow her yoga instructor’s directions in a class, according to a Chinese media report.
The 55-year-old client, a woman identified only as Hong, first sued the unnamed gym in February last year, three months after she broke the bone as the instructor corrected her in a seated pose called baddha konasana, Shanghai-based online news outlet ThePaper.cn reported on Tuesday.
Hong spent six days in hospital being treated for the injury.
In its defence in the Shanghai Pudong New Area People’s Court, the gym said Hong should have told the instructor to stop when she felt pain, the report said.
The court ordered the gym to pay Hong 15,000 yuan to cover her medical expenses and 10,000 yuan in compensation.
Hong sued the gym again in September for an additional 190,000 yuan in compensation, claiming her leg was permanently damaged by the injury, the report said.
