A faulty Pilates machine shattered Maya Maron’s elbow and derailed her music career; after years of legal and medical battles, she won a major settlement and is developing a robotic walking aidThis story has all the elements of a thriller: great success, a collapse, a broken love story and a fight to rebuild. Maya Meron says people she knows with Netflix connections are already pushing her to turn her life story into a series. But until that reaches the small screen, let’s go back to where it all began: March 11, 2019.Meron, 46, a gifted international violinist and mother of three, a 15-year-old daughter and 8-year-old twins, arrived that day for a Pilates class in Hampstead, north London. She was already a longtime client at the well-known chain, whose clientele included Meghan Markle and Victoria Beckham. That month, she had joined a new training program for postpartum women, hoping to strengthen her body after the birth of her twins.6 View gallery Maya Meron (Photo: Dalia Alkser)“There were only two women in the class whom I didn’t know, and a substitute instructor I had never seen before,” she recalls in her first interview with an Israeli media outlet. “I got on a machine with my body facing down, strongly stretching my abdominal muscles. I did six repetitions of the exercise, and then suddenly the bar that was supposed to be locked in place came loose. "The beam collapsed, and I was thrown down with tremendous force. I felt enormous pain in my stomach and heard the elbow in my left arm break, with the sound of the machine crashing in the background. The pain was so intense that I briefly lost consciousness. The next thing I remember is people from the studio coming over, asking if I could walk, then lifting me and taking me to the office so the class could continue.”Even though you were badly injured?