EL SEGUNDO, Calif — Los Angeles Chargers coach Jim Harbaugh mentioned Tuesday that he had a profitable cardiac ablation and hip alternative surgical procedure within the offseason.
“The medical doctors cannot discover something mistaken with me,” Harbaugh mentioned. “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 charge. Harbaugh went to the locker room, the place paramedics handled him, and his coronary heart finally 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 Night time Soccer” when he felt an irregular heartbeat however completed teaching the sport and noticed medical doctors afterward.
Relating to Harbaugh’s hip, he beforehand walked with a big limp that seems to have lessened with the surgical procedure. Harbaugh has mentioned beforehand that he would not contemplate retiring due to his well being points.
“It could take my coronary heart stopping for me to not be on the market on the sideline,” Harbaugh mentioned in October.