A 37-year-old woman’s bruising from a massage gun ended up having a cause stranger than anyone could have expected. In a recent report, doctors documented how the woman had developed the rare condition scurvy.

Doctors at the University of Pennsylvania detailed the bizarre turn of events in a paper published last month in the New England Journal of Medicine as part of a regular segment highlighting medically complex cases. The woman’s bruising was the only first sign of worsening health issues that eventually landed her in the hospital. Fortunately, after several false leads, her clinicians correctly diagnosed the woman’s vitamin C deficiency, and she made a full recovery. “The current case serves as a reminder that scurvy continues to occur in the United States…”

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