"This accident brings me an unexpected opportunity to make adjustments to my overall healthcare in a period when I don't have to conduct," he told the Globe. "I'm taking about my chronic stuff, like the sciatica, but also about diet and exercise."

"I'm going to do what the [physical] therapist tell me to do," he told the Times. "I want to be in a different kind of physical resilience."

Levine, 62, is overweight and has conducted sitting down for several years because of his health problems.

In the future, Levine added, he will try to arrange his schedule to allow for short breaks, rather than working himself into exhaustion.