{"id":131137,"date":"2025-08-09T07:16:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T07:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/131137\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T07:16:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T07:16:10","slug":"mom-left-with-brain-damage-after-falling-off-pilates-reformer-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/131137\/","title":{"rendered":"Mom Left with Brain Damage After Falling Off Pilates Reformer at Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> NEED TO KNOW<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An aspiring influencer shared footage of herself falling from a pilates machine during an at-home workout<\/li>\n<li>The video showed her hitting her head on the edge of the equipment, resulting in a sizable gash on her forehead<\/li>\n<li>Annabelle Rose, 32, said she was diagnosed with a concussion with damage to her prefrontal cortex<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_2-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> A woman&#8217;s at-home pilates workout took a wrong turn resulting in a head injury.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_4-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> Aspiring influencer Annabelle Rose, 32, shares videos of outfits, motherhood and more on social media regularly. In a July 14 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DMHa3buKnEF\/\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"externalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram video<\/a>, she showed her followers the aftermath of falling face-forward while on a steel reformer Pilates bench.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_6-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> \u201cA very humbling experience and one from which we shall learn: collectively,\u201d Rose wrote as the caption to her initial post.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_10-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> In the video, the mother has a camera set up as she does an at-home exercise, noting to one of her followers that it helps her to improve her form when she\u2019s able to look back on her workouts.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_12-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> The sped-up clip showed Rose breezing through her routine before she lost her balance, fell forward and hit her head.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_14-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> PEOPLE did not immediately receive a response from Rose.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_16-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> \u201cI\u2019d like to caveat this with it was absolutely MY fault. I didn\u2019t change the resistance. I was at the end of a fantastic workout and one that I\u2019ve done many times before. I got complacent and just left the resistance low from the previous move,\u201d she wrote.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_20-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> The footage showed a visible gash in her forehead.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_22-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> Rose added that although she didn\u2019t want to go to the hospital, her bleeding continued for six hours, so she decided to see a doctor. Her trip to urgent care was also included in the video.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_24-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> \u201cWho knew Pilates Reformer could be a contact sport hey,\u201d she concluded, with several laughing emojis.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_26-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> She later said she was healing from \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DMo5M66K3uE\/\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"externalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a concussion with damage to my prefrontal cortex<\/a>,\u201d adding that her injury happened in part of the brain \u201cthat controls memory, focus, decision-making, and executive function.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_28-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> <strong>Never miss a story \u2014 sign up for<a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/people-news-daily-newsletter-sign-up-8692701\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> PEOPLE&#8217;s free daily newsletter<\/a> to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer\u200b\u200b, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_30-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DMYaSLGqR86\/\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"externalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 21 video<\/a>, she shared several updates about what she\u2019s learned since \u201cdamaging my face on a reformer Pilates bench and posting about it online.\u201d The top lesson being that \u201cconcussion ain\u2019t for the weak.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_32-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> Rose\u2019s post was a clip of her husband helping her to wash her hair in their bathroom as she sat on the floor with her neck resting on the rim of their bathtub. She called his help his \u201cgreen flag,\u201d saying she\u2019s not allowed to get her forehead wet due to her injury.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_34-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> She also said others who do pilates have been \u201csuper thankful\u201d that she posted her mishap so they could learn from her mistake.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEED TO KNOW An aspiring influencer shared footage of herself falling from a pilates machine during an at-home&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":131138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[1198,210,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-131137","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fitness","8":"tag-fitness","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}