Race After Race, Teenager Crosses Finish Line, Then Collapses
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Re: Race After Race, Teenager Crosses Finish Line, Then Collapses
#2"Physical activity, he said, pools blood in the lower half of the body, reducing blood flow to the heart. In response, the heart pumps more vigorously. In people with NCS, the brain misreads that as high blood pressure and tries to lower the pressure, which leads to decreased blood flow to the brain and, thus, fainting."
I like how it sounds like an engineering flaw. Hopefully one day our software will not be bound to randomly generated aging hardware.
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Re: Race After Race, Teenager Crosses Finish Line, Then Collapses
#4"I can't breathe!"
"Am I getting a medal?"
Well done, American society, well done parents.
Edit: I realize this is a snarky comment but this was my initial reading of the article. Sure she is brave. I guess? This just seems rather extreme. It's sure not the kind of values I would want to see in my kids. You know, breathing, and staying conscious, and not depriving one's brain or body of oxygen, these are sort of important things, especially throughout development.
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#5"I can't breathe!" "Am I getting a medal?" Well done, American society, well done parents. Edit: I realize this is a snarky comment but this was my initial reading of the article. Sure she is brave. I guess? This just seems rather extreme. It's sure not the kind of values I would want to see in my kids. You know, breathing, and staying conscious, and not depriving one's brain or body of oxygen, these are sort of impo…
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Re: Race After Race, Teenager Crosses Finish Line, Then Collapses
#6Endurance sports like running will lead (even in healthy individuals) to very very mild cases of orthostatic intolerance.
If you go from sitting to standing, you might get lightheaded for a few seconds as the body is too slow to react. More here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2343225/pdf/tjp0...
Re: Race After Race, Teenager Crosses Finish Line, Then Collapses
#7Endurance sports like running will lead (even in healthy individuals) to very very mild cases of orthostatic intolerance . If you go from sitting to standing, you might get lightheaded for a few seconds as the body is too slow to react. More here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2343225/pdf/tjp0...
Do you mean that this condition is caused by endurance sports?
Re: Race After Race, Teenager Crosses Finish Line, Then Collapses
#8Endurance sports like running will lead (even in healthy individuals) to very very mild cases of orthostatic intolerance . If you go from sitting to standing, you might get lightheaded for a few seconds as the body is too slow to react. More here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2343225/pdf/tjp0...
Do you mean that this condition is caused by endurance sports?
Oh no, I just wanted to mention other more common faults of our poorly parameterized blood pressure PID controller.
Re: Race After Race, Teenager Crosses Finish Line, Then Collapses
#9Endurance sports like running will lead (even in healthy individuals) to very very mild cases of orthostatic intolerance . If you go from sitting to standing, you might get lightheaded for a few seconds as the body is too slow to react. More here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2343225/pdf/tjp0...
Interesting. I've been a runner for over a decade and run 50+ miles/week. I experience light-headedness going from sitting to standing a few times a week.
Re: Race After Race, Teenager Crosses Finish Line, Then Collapses
#10"I can't breathe!" "Am I getting a medal?" Well done, American society, well done parents. Edit: I realize this is a snarky comment but this was my initial reading of the article. Sure she is brave. I guess? This just seems rather extreme. It's sure not the kind of values I would want to see in my kids. You know, breathing, and staying conscious, and not depriving one's brain or body of oxygen, these are sort of impo…
Still, all of the doctors they visited, Dale Peterman said, cleared Sam to run. “If we didn’t have the utmost medical clearance for her to run,” he said, “she wouldn’t be running.”
We aren't so fragile.