Which injuries did Frida Kahlo suffer in the 1925 bus accident?

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Frida Kahlo stands at an easel, holding a paintbrush and working on a portrait of a woman in a white dress, looking toward the camera. — Frida Kahlo Mexican artist Frida Kahlo painting a portrait of Jean Wight in 1931; the work depicts the wife of artist Clifford Wight, who assisted Diego Rivera, Kahlo's husband, when he was painting a number of murals throughout the United States.

In 1925, Frida Kahlo was involved in a severe bus accident that resulted in life-altering injuries. She suffered multiple fractures in her spine, pelvis, collarbone, ribs, and right leg. Additionally, her shoulder was dislocated, her right foot was crushed, and an iron handrail punctured her abdomen and uterus.123

These injuries caused Kahlo chronic pain for the remainder of her life and necessitated more than 30 medical procedures over the following decades. The long period of recovery and immobilization that followed the accident was a pivotal turning point that led her to focus on painting, often using a mirror attached to her bed canopy to create her signature self-portraits.23