Dancing with the Stars contender Danielle Fishel has given fans an update on her leg injury and ongoing recovery.

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The Boy Meets World star, 44, shared in Dancing with the Stars' rehearsal footage how she suffered a "hamstring tear" preparing for her Week 2 dance and then went for a deep tissue massage that "broke every blood vessel in the back" of her leg.

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"I am pushing through the pain," Danielle told the cameras, before photos of her badly bruised leg were shown.

Danielle told Us Weekly that she had to make an appointment with a surgeon to discuss her injury.

"I had to meet with a surgeon to see if I needed surgery on top of an already kind of grueling rehearsal schedule," Danielle shared.

"To find time to take care of myself has been, probably, the biggest challenge."

Danielle said she's been putting great effort into her self-care routine "morning, afternoon and evening."

The actress explained, "Like, when you are nursing an injury, you have to alternate ice and heat, and I have to elevate, and I've had to compress, and I've had to have PT two to three times a week."

As for her Dancing with the Stars pro partner, Pasha Pashkov, he said he's been taking precaution.

"Going into this week, we already knew that the leg is struggling a little bit," Pasha told the magazine.

"So to begin with, we already did the [choreography] in such a way that it doesn't really affect the right leg at all. But even throughout the week, we were just thinking of simplifying some things."

Once Danielle got cleared by her doctor to dance, she and Pasha apparently decided not to hold back.

"She's like, 'Now let's keep [the dance] exactly the way it is,'" Pasha recalled. "So I'm just asking her to listen to her body and we go based off of that."

Danielle and Pasha ended up performing a cha cha to "The Rhythm of the Night" by Corona on "One Hit Wonders Night."

The pair earned 19 out of 30 possible points from Dancing with the Stars judges Derek Hough, Carrie Ann Inaba and Bruno Tonioli for their dance.

"My No. 1 goal for next week is to keep my shoulders down, because I do not want Bruno to give me that note three weeks in a row," Danielle said.

"But it's also just to have fun and to up my game a little bit more. I'm here for an upward trajectory, so I just want to keep it going."

Danielle quipped in a separate interview with People of her stint on Dancing with the Stars, "I was only going to leave here because of an injury if they brought me out on a stretcher."

Pasha also commended the makeup team for covering up Danielle's bruising.

"Because of the amazing body makeup... and how you danced, no one would ever know, because you literally danced like nothing ever happened," Pasha told his celebrity partner.

Danielle boasted about how she works well under pressure.

"And I'm a performer. I haven't been in front of the camera performing for a very long time. I didn't know if I was going to feel rusty or if I was going to know what to do anymore," Danielle said.

"But literally, the minute the audience loads in and I get that feeling, it's 1994 again, and there's an audience of 250 people on the set of Boy Meets World and it's live show night -- I just come alive from the inside."

Danielle recalled her debut in the DWTS ballroom as being "amazing," especially because, this time last year, she was undergoing cancer treatment.

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Danielle revealed in 2024 that she was diagnosed with an early form of breast cancer called ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), according to People.

Danielle reportedly underwent 20 rounds of radiation and finished the active cancer treatment in January.




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