Lead Fracture and Dislodgement

Hello Everyone,

I am new here. I am 57 years old and had a Biotronik DDR Talos implant ( dual chamber) a month ago because of Sick Sinus Syndrome. I am doing well so far post operatively and in fact I am back to work. I regularly play tennis before I had this PPI but my concern now is I was being prevented by my cardiologist to play tennis for fear of lead fracture and dislodgement. He told me not to play tennis anymore for fear of lead fracture and dislodgement. That brought me to tears so i I hope I could get some support and information from anyone who plays tennis after PPI and how are they doing.

I wish you all the best.

Raul

4 Comments

Dry your tears!

by donr - 2013-10-03 07:10:19

Dry the them for now, at least. Scroll down the page to a thread called "Strength Training Limitations." That is a good start at reading positive info for your case.

I assume that they implanted your PM on your non-dominant side, so the PM leads will not take a beating from constant flexing, etc.

If you are a typical Filipino, you are most likely small (Compared to a typical American Caucasian man), so the comment by Donb will apply to you.

Unless you have some special considerations, you should have no problems playing tennis.

We have lots of successful players in here. You will just have to wait a few months & be conservative about when you start. You have the rest of your life to play tennis, so you can enjoy that pastime, be patient for a short part of it.

I can guarantee you from personal experience that after about 9 weeks the leads are thoroughly embedded in your heart wall. Mine survived an auto accident that, according to my Cardio should have killed me. It did partially damage the physical anchoring of my heart, but not my new lead.

Don

tennis

by Tracey_E - 2013-10-03 09:10:21

Unless your dr has a specific reason why you are different from the rest of us, I'd proceed with caution and ignore him. Could he have meant just for the healing time? Many of us play tennis, as well as other things a lot more strenuous. Once we heal it takes a laser to get them out, swinging a tennis racket sure as heck won't do it!

Hi Raul

by IAN MC - 2013-10-03 09:10:39

Your cardiologist is talking rubbish ( unless as Don says, there is something special about you medically which we don't know about )

Like you I have a dual chamber PM for Sick Sinus Syndrome and I play tennis 3 times a week with no problems . I started playing about 8 weeks after implant together with golf. Once scar tissue has formed no tennis stroke will dislodge the leads or fracture them !

I would ignore the doctor's advice and PLAY !!

Best of luck

Ian

Tennis

by gleesue - 2013-10-03 11:10:26

I played tennis last night and golf Monday. I played golf for the first time a little less than 4 weeks after implant, tennis at 5 weeks with no problems. When I started back into things my doc just said, “If it hurts don’t do it”. You will be able to do everything you did before with little fear of dislodgement. I also do a lot of jet skiing, jumping waves at 60mph. That causes a lot of stress on the wires, but so far so good. I also know we have some dirt riders (motorcycle) in the club. If you look through posts you will see very few instances where wires have been dislodged. So get back to your tennis as soon as you can.

Jerry

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