Jeffrey Jaime, CISSPServant Leader & CEO Driving AI Innovation and Team Excellence

Career-Ending Injury Leads to Diagnosis of Autoimmune Disease

23 Mar 2025 · 1 min

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A first-person YouTube video by Jeffrey Jaime recounting a college athlete’s experience: he made a Division II college football roster but suffered a third shoulder injury that ended his playing career during his freshman year. Shortly after, he was diagnosed with mononucleosis—having gone through four days at the start of the season with mono—and links the event to stress physiology, describing how fight-or-flight tension causes fascia to lock down and may affect the immune and circulatory systems.

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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.