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blood clots are actually common in athletes... Perhaps the most well-known athlete to experience a blood clot is the tennis icon Serena Williams, who had life-threatening pulmonary embolism (PE) in 2011 after a foot injury and cross-country air travel.
Athletes who use their arms heavily, like tennis players, baseball pitchers and basketball players, are at risk of clots involving the arm veins. These clots can occur when a structure at the base of the neck next to the shoulder called the thoracic outlet is narrowed. The vein, artery and nerve supplying the arm has to pass through this outlet, which is lined by muscles and bony structures. For athletes, especially those using their arms, the muscles can get large and contribute to the narrowing of the outlet. In this situation, repetitive injury to the vein going through that narrowed outlet sets the stage for a clot forming in the vein. These clots can cause swelling and pain of the arm, and sometimes numbness. Like leg clots, they can travel to the lungs causing pulmonary embolism. Treatment is with anticoagulant medications and often surgery is used to open up the outlet so that clots might not form again.
Her son plays competitive basketball seven days a week, which means high contact physical activity
Over the years I've heard of stories of young people, old people, healthy people, etc...who have gotten sick and in some cases died, with out any previous evidence of illness,
Is this a coincidence -- could be.
Without any of his doctor's talking to the reporter and saying what REALLY happened we have no clue.
A Mom's feeling that she admits has no foundation is not what you base science on.
Common sense would suggest that we have to talk to the doctors to see what they say before we can draw any conclusion
Blood clots have been widely reported with the covid vaccines. You’d have to be sleepwalking in order to believe this to be coincidence.
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