A personal first-person account (by Ben Greenfield) about a Division II college football player whose athletic career ended in his freshman year after a third shoulder injury and a concurrent diagnosis of mononucleosis (mono). The speaker links physical injury and illness to stress responses—discussing fight-or-flight, stored tension, fascia tightening, and impacts on immune and circulatory systems.
So I was just all in on football and finally did make it to college to play ball Division two. And I had suffered a number of injuries to that point and sustained a third shoulder injury that abruptly ended my career during my freshman year of college playing football. And on top of that, I was diagnosed with mono. So what I discovered on the back end is that I had gone through four days in the beginning of the football season season with mono. So we think about stored tension and immune system and your cardiovascular system, your circulatory system. When you're under stress, you're in fight or flight, your fascia locks down.
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