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Madonna discharged from hospital after fall from horse
(AFP)
Updated: 2005-08-17 11:46 LONDON (AFP) - US pop diva
Madonna was discharged from hospital where she had been treated for injuries
suffered in a horse riding accident in southwest England, a hospital spokeswoman
said.
The singer had been taken to Salisbury District Hospital in Wiltshire after
falling off her horse while celebrating her 47th birthday.
Madonna's spokeswoman, Barbara Charone, earlier said the songstress had
broken her collar bone and a hand, and cracked three ribs, but her condition was
not serious.
"Madonna fell off a new horse she was riding late this afternoon at Ashcombe
House, her country house outside London," Charone said.
The songstress was marking her birthday with her two children, Lourdes,
eight, and five-year-old Rocco, as well as her film director husband Guy
Ritchie, at their sprawling 1,200-acre (485-hectare) country estate in
Wiltshire, southwest England, when the accident happened.
But one orthopaedic surgeon, Leela Biant, said Madonna's fitness would help
her to make a full recovery, noting that this should take about three months.
"You don't treat broken ribs, they heal by themselves," Biant said.
"The fact that Madonna is very fit and healthy will help her recovery and
because she does a lot of yoga she will be used to deep breathing," she told
Britain's domestic Press Association.
Biant said, however, that the Material Girl would find it painful to sing
during the first couple of weeks.
Madonna has reinvented herself as an English country wife since meeting
Ritchie, a celebrated director in his own right with movies such as "Lock, Stock
and Two Smoking Barrels".
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