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Caroline Miele is a professional dancer from Florida whose right shoulder started slowly creeping upward in August 2025

After initially brushing it off, she decided to seek help from an orthopedic specialist, but received no real answers

Instead, she turned to TikTok, where a supportive community of medical professionals helped point her in the right direction

At the beginning of August 2025, professional dancer Caroline Miele began to notice a subtle but persistent change in her posture — her right shoulder was gradually lifting higher than her left.

“I didn’t think much of it since it was only noticeable to me,” Miele tells PEOPLE. “After a week or two, my fiancé and friends started to notice as it got more drastic.”

Being accustomed to the physical demands of dance an

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