Woman’s Bruising From a Massage Gun Was a Sign of Something Far Worse: Scurvy

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…