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  • I would be interested to hear of thoughts or recommendations from Dr Contractor or Professor Buckley about aspects re: return to running after breast cancer Tx. Appreciating the niche query, thus far I have been unable to find answers through cardiology or pulmonary testing, and have experienced a dramatic decrease in performance in the past two…Read More

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    • Hi Tonniminniti01, I’m sorry to hear about your breast cancer diagnosis and it is great to hear that you have reached the point of recovery where you are running and training. It is not uncommon for breast cancer treatments to affect the heart and for you to perceive a reduction in performance. However, in most instances, training after these…Read More

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    • 100s of millions of vaccinations have been given in a relatively short period of time. Millions of cardiac events occurred yearly before Covid and before the vaccine. You mix these 2 factors together, many events will by coincidence occur before, during and after the vaccination event. One has to be careful not to automatically connect the two.…Read More

  • We undergo Cardio Training to strengthen the heart, but if we don’t follow a proper schedule, are there any chances of harming the heart instead of strengthening it?

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    • I think people have to appreciate that being a high-level professional athlete is an occupational hazard, and people take on those risks and they put their bodies through extreme cases, but usually, they stop doing them by the time they get to thirty-five when the body decides that it can’t cope with that level. So, you…Read More

    • Yes, I mean, if you do it wrong, you can damage yourself, I mean, you’ve got to do something pretty crazy to do damage to yourself. But more likely, you might damage yourself from a musculoskeletal point of view before you even damage yourself from a heart point of view, if you do silly stuff. In fact, Tim Hutchings and I were talking yesterday,…Read More

  • Hi, I’m interested to know Professor Buckley’s view on cardiac rehab for ARVC patients. Is exercise safe for these people?

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    • First thing is, what do we define as exercise? ARVC is Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy. Dr Contractor might want to comment, but I can’t give a blanket recommendation on a question like that, it needs careful evaluation. But when we talk about exercise, what do people mean by this? We have…Read More

      • I’d just like to add a bit more to Prof Buckley’s answer. So, yeah, ARVC potentially could be something which needs serious evaluation. I think you must meet with your doctor, preferably a sports cardiologist who understands it. And then based on the patterns of his ECG, you can be given exercise advice. It would be difficult to give advice over…Read More

  • What precautions should be taken while exercising in patients who have ASD devices placed in their heart?

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    • ASD which stands for Atrial Septal Defect is what we commonly call as “a hole in the heart”. You have the left side of the heart on the right side and the twain shall never meet normally. But sometimes people are born with a little hole in the heart and the impure and the pureblood mix. Once the ASD is fixed, majorly…Read More

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