‘Dancing with the Stars’ 19: Karina Smirnoff rushed to hospital with rehearsal injury

The one thing that it is so easily to take advantage of when it comes to “Dancing with the Stars” time and time again is just how dangerous some of the routines can be. Just one wrong move, and you are being carted away to the hospital.

According to a new report from TMZ, the latest person to feel some of this pain is pro Karina Smirnoff, who suffered an injury during rehearsals. While sources claim that she did not suffer any fractures, she was still sent by EMTs over to a hospital as a precaution. Most likely, she is emerge from this just fine.

So why is she still dancing if her partner Randy Couture was already eliminated from the competition? The simple answer to that is that all of the pros continue to perform on the show after their partners are eliminated, whether it be in separate routines or big groups numbers. This is a way to keep some viewer favorites around, even long after their dance partners are sent home.

Karina is one of the longest-serving pros on the show, having arrived back during season 3 when she and Mario Lopez made it extremely far in the competition. In a way, this show is what we can credit for jump-starting the career of the former “Saved by the Bell” star, in addition to a variety of other people over the years. Karina won the competition previously with soap star J.R. Martinez.

Obviously, our best wishes are wish her, and hopefully she is back and donning her dancing shoes at some point in the near future.

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