9/11/2008

Against Blood Sports

If you suffer from numbness in hands and fingers after playing baseball or volleyball or after a hard day of rowing practice, can be caused by blood clots. Dr. Michael Dake, chief of cardiovascular radiology at Stanford University, said that tronarte arm movements in heating or sporting activities can cause clots in his shoulder.

Fragments of the clot can travel through blood vessels until their hands, causing numbness. This injury (relatively rare) not life-threatening, but may end up causing more severe circulatory problems in his hands.

Dr. Dake believes a surgical procedure that can repair damage to blood vessels in the shoulder, and can be used drugs to dissolve clots and restore the sensations at the hands and fingers.

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