'DWTS' Brooke Burke injured, taken to hospital! Not another one!

You'd think dancing was a contact sport the way everyone's getting banged, bruised, busted and scratched on this season's "Dancing With the Stars."

This weekend Brooke Burke injured her foot and had to be taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center this morning for an exam and X-rays.

Seems she was performing the treacherous and tremendously difficult jitterbug with partner Derek Hough during an important rehearsal Sunday afternoon. Suddenly, she came down hard on her right foot while doing a front flip. She immediately applied ice to her foot to reduce swelling.

But all she had was a bruise.

A bruise?

"She's a little sore, but she rehearsed today and she feels ready to dance tonight," an ABC spokesperson assured People.

Is there a "DWTS" curse that started in Season 5, as some people suggest?

Lance Bass thinks so. "I know it's cursed," he tells "Access." Every major injury that has happened this season has been on this stage. Not in rehearsal. Right here on the stage."

Burke's foot injury is the third to occur this season on "DWTS." Two weeks ago, Olympic volleyball star Misty May-Treanor ruptured an Achilles tendon and had to withdraw from the competition.

During the first week of the season, comedian Jeffrey Ross got a corneal abrasion when partner Edyta Slwinska's hand grazed his eye. Those acrylic nails are shaaaaarp!

Only eight celebrity dancers remain in the competition. Wonder who'll go down -– or fall down -- tonight?

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