David Beckham broke his back in horror injury but doctors missed vital signs
Footballer David Beckham has revealed that he sustained an agonising injury but was forced to push doctors to take a closer look and “insist” that “something was not right”09:42, 25 Feb 2025Updated 11:07, 25 Feb 2025David Beckham broke his back without knowing.While speaking to Men’s Health UK, David opened up about the agonising injury he sustained while playing football in Los Angeles. He told the publication: “I actually broke my back. I was living in LA and cracked my spine. I had pain after a game, I went for a scan and couldn’t find anything wrong with it.”Despite the footie legend’s pain, he was forced to advocate for himself and urged medical professionals to take a closer look at what was going on: “I was insisting there was something not right there, I could feel it. So, they injected me with dye and then it came up. It was a bad one.”That isn’t the only serious injury David has ever sustained: “I broke my wrist in South Africa and I still get issues with it. I was told that it was a dissolvable screw. It turns out it wasn’t, so I’ve still got it.”David urged doctors to take a closer look at his back(Image: More