7 Shocking Facts About Bruce Lee

He Had Chronic Back Pain

On Aug 13, 1970, he was doing an exercise known as Good Mornings when he hurt his back severely. He was lifting weights of 60kg / 135lb. It is evident that this injury was a result of poor warm-up before lighting heavy. The result was an injury to his sacral nerve. The injury was not during movie shooting or during the movie according to many. Although doctors told him that he can’t be able to continue martial arts like before, he went on to star in four and half more films. He had chronic back pain on and off during his entire lifetime.