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Ms Cousins said she had health issues including adhesions causing chronic pain in her abdomen and slipped discs in her back.

At the very least, it can lead to lumbar procedures to fix a slipped disc.

Having dominated the World Cup circuit and feeling "pretty much untouchable" by 2019, one injury followed another, from broken bones and muscular tears to slipped discs in her neck.

There were broken bones, slipped discs and sore heads over the years, but mercifully never anything more serious.

The doctors had a legitimate medical concern: Kennedy had a slipped disc around his lumbar spine, because the adjacent bone had inexplicably softened.