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I took a spinning class and ended up at a hospital's A&E clinic
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The writer's hospital stay began with a spinning class, which caused her thighs to ache badly.
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Adelene Wong
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SINGAPORE - Every nurse and doctor at Raffles Hospital who tended to me was sympathetic, but there was a knowing glint in their eyes as they asked me: "Spinning?"
If Covid-19 is the pandemic of our time then spinning-induced rhabdomyolysis feels like a virus, "infecting" people due to the seductiveness of a fun, accessible way to exercise.
