Bills safety Damar Hamlin announced his intention to return to the NFL this upcoming season on Tuesday following his more than three month recovery journey after suffering cardiac arrest during a game on Jan. 2.
During his speech to the media on Tuesday, Hamlin detailed that the exact diagnosis doctors gave him is commotio cordis, which is when something hitting an athlete’s chest directly over the heart can cause cardiac arrest and ventricular fibrillation.
Hamlin noted that commotio cordis is the leading cause of death of youth athletes across all sports.
