Mandy Rose Battling Arthritis and Cervical Spine Degeneration – Mandy Rose has provided an update on her health, raising questions about whether she will return to the ring.
Rose was released from WWE in December 2022 after the company took issue with the adult content she was posting on her FanTime page. Before her departure, she dropped the NXT Women’s Championship. Since then, she has found success in modeling and other ventures.
Speaking on the latest episode of the Power Alphas Podcast, Rose revealed that she is currently managing arthritis and disc degeneration in her cervical spine. She explained that years of wrestling, bodybuilding, and athletic activities have taken a toll on her body, leading her to seek chiropractic treatment.
Rose shared that she recently experienced numbness and tingling in her hands, which worsened while she was in the Bahamas earlier this year. Concerned about the symptoms, she visited a chiropractor and underwent X-rays. The results showed arthritis in her C6, C7, and C8 vertebrae, along with disc degeneration.
“You know, my number one question across all social media is always, ‘You know, when are you coming back to wrestling?’ or ‘Are you going to have a return?’ Obviously, I speak about it a lot, and, you know, try to answer your questions as best as I can. I never know if there’s ever going to be a return in the future for me, but recently, Savy and myself, actually both of us, have been seeing a chiropractor because I’ve had a little bit of, you know, trauma in the cervical spine area. Nothing too crazy, thankfully. but after, you know, eight years of wrestling and years before that of bodybuilding and putting bars on my back, and, you know, obviously playing sports—I always was athletic growing up, dancing—all of that plays, you know, a huge toll on your spine. And I’m really learning a lot, too, how much is involved, like, with your spine in general. So, basically, I have, you know, some degeneration in some of my discs, which it wouldn’t really be a thing if I didn’t have, like, well, I guess I probably wouldn’t have gone if I didn’t have really, like, symptoms. So, we were in the Bahamas a couple of weeks ago—a couple of months ago now, actually, January, right? And I’d been getting like bad numbness and tingling in my hands, which comes and goes with me, but it started getting, like, kind of bad. I think it was the pillow that I was sleeping on. So, went to a chiropractor, found out, you know, we got x-rays, found out that, like, I have, you know, some arthritis in, like, my C6, C7, C8 area, some degeneration in my discs, so been getting some treatments. So, right now, I feel like a wrestling return for me wouldn’t really make much sense because, obviously, the wear and tear does on your body. And, not to say that it can’t happen in the future, and I’m not, like, you know, I don’t need surgery or anything like that, thank God. But we’re doing some, you know, decompression, a decompression machine, getting some adjustments. So, it’s really good that I’m, you know, kind of taking care of this now. I think, especially because I think also a lot of people do have issues, but they sometimes just don’t even have symptoms, so they don’t even, like, know. But until you kind of, like, look at your spine or you have someone, a professional, look at it, it’s really interesting to learn about.”
Mandy Rose Battling Arthritis and Cervical Spine Degeneration
