Adele Details List of Painful Back Issues While Performing in Las Vegas
The award-winning singer got rather candid about her health during a recent concert.
Adele opened up about her health struggles during a recent Las Vegas show as part of her "Weekends with Adele" residency which kicked off in Nov. 2022.
The "Easy On Me" singer, 34, told audience members at Caesars Palace Colosseum that she was performing with a disintegrated disc in her spine during a recent
"Is anyone else kind of my age starting getting bad knees? I have got really bad sciatica in my left leg and my L5 disc is not f***ing there anymore. It's worn away," Adele revealed, according to The Evening Standard.
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Per the Cleveland Clinic, the L5 nerve "provides sensation to the outer side of your lower leg, the upper part of your foot and the space between your first and second toe. This nerve also controls hip, knee, foot and toe movements."
This isn't the first time the songstress has opened up about her health issues to a crowd at one of her shows. Adele revealed that it was hard for her to walk during her performance on New Year's Eve.
"I have to waddle these days as I have really bad sciatica," she told the audience while launching merchandise t-shirts into the crowd.
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Sciatica is a pain that originates along your sciatic nerve–a nerve that extends from the back of your pelvis down the back of your thigh. According to Johns Hopkins Medicine, the sciatic nerve is the main nerve in your leg and is the largest nerve in your entire body.
During an interview with The Face in Nov. 2021, Adele described how her fitness journey has helped her overcome her pain, which she revealed she has felt for "half" her life.
"I like feeling strong, I really do. I love it. I was lifting weights this morning, and I’ve gone up from what I was doing a couple of weeks ago. When I feel that I have the weight of the world – of my world at least – on my shoulders, I can handle it a bit more because I’ve gone up 10 pounds with my weights. It really was just a metaphor for surviving."
We're sending Adele all the love and support as she regains her strength and rounds out the rest of her residency.
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