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I recently read a research article that suggested

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that people that have Achilles tendon injuries

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have problems with their hearts later on. Can

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you explain the connection with that? Yeah, so

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the calf muscles or the lower leg which connect

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to the Achilles tendon is considered kind of

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like the second heart of the body. Obviously,

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we have our main heart in our chest. But the

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same way the blood has to go out into the system

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or into the body to reach different tissues,

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whether it's your muscles, your organs, or even,

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who knows, like a ligament of some sort, that

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same blood has to come back, right? And so the

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way the lower leg or the calf and the Achilles

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work, they work as a pump, right? So the heart

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is a pump. You can watch this video on Rumble,

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