But Bowe also suffered another, less common complication from her concussion: postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome . The condition became a “daunting part of my everyday life,” Bowe wrote in 2017, and it ultimately forced her to cut her season short.
“I needed to do myself a favor and heal,” she wrote in the same essay. “I went home to Florida to escape the thought of ‘pushing through’ and give my body the time it needed to repair itself…but in this case, going home to Florida to take time to relax only escalated dysfunction for me. There were days I wouldto get some fresh air and after about 10 minutes of being on my feet, my heart rate would be in the 140s and I would nearly faint.
Bowe was put on a vestibular rehabilitation program by doctors at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs. She was also given a strict POTS-safe workout regimen. It felt like starting from square one, she wrote. “Vestibular rehab began with the smallest eye movements, and my workout program began with just a few minutes on a recumbent bike.”
Feeling far from being an athlete, let alone an Olympian, Bowe says she turned to the power of visualization. “My doctor told me to print photographs of myself—as the world champion, as the world-record holder—and hang them where I can see them every day as a reminder of who I am and what I’m working for,” she wrote.
The lessons Bowe took from her post-concussion complications might ultimately be her edge as she trains for the 2022 Olympics in Beijing next month. “I know from my concussion that things can change in the blink of an eye,” Bowe said in an interview
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