The Weekend of a Competitive Dancer

Unfortunately, you could not get an appointment with the orthopedic until the following week. However, when you called them, they put a doctor on the phone and he advised you to not dance. He said that it was your choice, not his choice. To determine whether you should kept dancing he instructed "Try to do a backbend. If that is causing you any pain at all, then don't dance."

So, you try and do a backend Your ant to pretend that it didn't hurt, but it did. This is when you eventually realize it is not worth it to lie to yourself. You back down from your stubbornness, and stop dance until backbends give you no pain.