“Physical Therapist Had to Rub My Lip Every Day”: Snowboarding Legend Shaun White Disclosed a Bizarre Recovery Technique He Used Earlier This Year

Shaun White is one of the prominent names in the world of snowboarding. The X-Games gold medalist put behind his medical conditions, serious injuries, and several other challenges to become a name synonymous with the sport. Besides, the Flying Tomato is also renowned for the comical punch he adds to articulate even the painful events.

The five-time Olympian retired from competitive sports earlier this year. Ever since then, he has been on a travel spree with his lady love, Nina Dobrev, a Canadian actress. In a HypochondriActor podcast that primarily tries to bring together comedy and medicine in celebrity stories, White joined the hosts, Sean Hayes and Dr. Priyanka Wali, to share a hilarious account of his physical therapist’s method and her earnestness in dealing with scar tissues.

Rubbing White’s lip was an everyday practice

Snowboarding is an exciting sport and for White, it was everything he thought of from an early age. That being said, one cannot discount the injuries and risks involved in the sport. In the podcast, the snowboarding legend speaks about a scar on his lip due to an injury.

White had a therapist to break down the scar tissues on his lip. “My physical therapist had to rub my lip every day” to loosen and break the tissues down, thus reducing its appearance. White’s therapist would do it diligently, even when they were traveling and waiting at an airport. “She is on her phone and her hand is in my mouth,” the Olympian athlete remarked upon his uncompromising therapist.

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She would rub his lip for nearly two hours every day, regardless of her surroundings. Referring to one such experience in the airport, White recalled people walking by as she rubbed his lip, “Tears are pouring down my face ’cause it hurts so bad.” Nope, nothing stopped her from doing her job.

Shaun White had his first worst crash at 11

Going through the track record of not the snowboarder’s medals but his injuries, one can not dispute what a dare-devil he was. And it all began at a very early age. In 2017, when White crashed on his face in New Zealand during his training session, he underwent 62 stitches across his forehead, lips, and tongue.

Surprisingly, he commented that he had experienced worse than that. When he was 11, the tenacious skateboarder crashed into another skateboarder and broke his hand, fractured his foot, and also injured his skull. The crash was also listed as one of MTV’s 100 most brutal moments. What do you think about Shaun White’s fearless persona? Share in the comments.

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