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===The Broken Column === The Broken Column shows the impact of the streetcar accident, with her injured pelvic area, a metal handrail from the streetcar had pierced womb, which would later result in her being unable to bear children.<ref name="PortraitPain">{{Cite book | title = Body Talk in the Medical Humanities: Whose Language?|isbn=978-1-5275-4232-7|language=en | url =https://books.google.com/books/about/Body_Talk_in_the_Medical_Humanities.html?id=FBu7DwAAQBAJ | date = 2019-10-28| publisher = Cambridge Scholars Publishing|editor-last = Patterson|editor-first = Jennifer|editor-last2 = Kinchington|editor-first2 = Francia|chapter-url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=FBu7DwAAQBAJ&lpg=PA207&pg=PA207#v=onepage&q&f=true |chapter=Portrait of Pain: Frida Kahlo | last = Demonte | first = Nicola | pages = 207-215 }}</ref> The Broken Column shows her spine replaced by a metal column and the straps of the medical corset she was forced to wear while recovering. It has been noted that the facial pain it shows could not have been caused by her spinal injury.<ref name="FineArts" /> She painted The Broken Column while wearing a steel corset and unable to sit unless she was tied top the back of a chair. She would spend years bedbound or using a wheelchair, with her spinal and leg pain in particular steadily increasing.<ref name="FineArts" />
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