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Buffalo Bills’ Safety Damar Hamlinwho has been allowed to resume football activities, said Tuesday his cardiac arrest during an NFL game in January was caused by commotio cordis.
Hamlin has come in The heart stops beating after making a tackle and apparently getting stabbed in the chest by a helmet during the first half of the Bills v Cincinnati Bengals on 2 January.
Commotio cordis can occur when severe trauma to the chest disrupts the electrical charge of the heart and causes dangerous fibrillation.
“I died on national television in front of the whole world,” Hamlin said in his first session with reporters since the injury. “I have lost a lot of people in my life. I know a group of people who have lost loved ones in their lives. I understand that feeling. Yes, that’s the greatest blessing of all – for me I still have my people and my people still have me.”
According to the team, the 25-year-old was at Bills’ practice facility in Orchard Park, New York, participating in off-season volunteer training sessions this week.
Brandon Beane, General Manager of Bills, told reporters: “He has fully recovered. “He’s here.”
Hamlin said he is lucky to have a wonderful team of medical staff who “treat me with care for their children”.
Safety said his heart was still in the game and he announced his return to the NFL.
“I just wanted to show people that fear is a choice. You can go on doing something with no answers and not knowing what’s at the end of the tunnel,” he said. “You can feel nervous – you can feel it any way – but you just put your right foot in front of your left foot and you keep going. I want to support that.”
Beane said that Hamlin has met with three separate professionals throughout the season, who all agree that the player “will obviously resume full activities like anyone else coming back from injury.”
“(Hamlin’s) is having a great time going back and forth,” added Beane.
Bills head coach Sean McDermott said the team is happy to have Hamlin back.
“We are extremely excited for Damar. He’s taking it one step at a time here. “He was physically exonerated,” McDermott said.
“We are going to provide all the mental help we can from a mind, body and spirit point of view, so it was a pleasure for him that he was able to test some that box to this point, and we’ll move forward to make that happen someday. time.”
According to the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology, if no potential heart abnormalities are detected through testing, athletes who have been resuscitated from a seizure can return to the competition. fight.
Hamlin may have undergone numerous tests, including an electrocardiogram and an echocardiogram, before doctors allowed him to return to training.
“It basically means a few things. One is that his heart function has returned to normal. He had no basic problems with cardiac anatomy, and he had no basic problems with electricity, so that’s the most important thing – and the way they’ve figured that out in the last three and a half months is real. do a study. lots of testing,” CNN Chief Medical Officer Dr. Sanjay Gupta said on “CNN News Central.”
