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Kris Rhim
EL SEGUNDO, Calif — Los Angeles Chargers coach Jim Harbaugh stated Tuesday that he had a profitable cardiac ablation and hip alternative surgical procedure within the offseason.
“The docs cannot discover something flawed with me,” Harbaugh stated. “A-grade.”
In a recreation in opposition to the Denver Broncos in Week 6 of final season, Harbaugh, 61, had a flare-up with atrial flutter, a sort of arrhythmia that causes the center to beat at an abnormally excessive price. Harbaugh went to the locker room, the place paramedics handled him, and his coronary heart ultimately returned to a traditional rhythm.
Harbaugh returned within the first quarter and coached the rest of that recreation, then wore a coronary heart monitor for 2 weeks throughout the season.
Harbaugh has had three episodes of atrial flutter, the earlier one coming in 2012. Harbaugh was teaching the San Francisco 49ers in a recreation in opposition to the Chicago Bears on “Monday Evening Soccer” when he felt an irregular heartbeat however completed teaching the sport and noticed docs afterward.
Relating to Harbaugh’s hip, he beforehand walked with a big limp that seems to have lessened with the surgical procedure. Harbaugh has stated beforehand that he would not contemplate retiring due to his well being points.
“It might take my coronary heart stopping for me to not be on the market on the sideline,” Harbaugh stated in October.
