Maitena BerruecoVitoria-Gasteiz 06/05/2024 06:30h.
One of Asamma’s women, practicing archery in Vitoria. Euskadi Editorial Team
Txus Agirrezabal was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2006. During the San Prudencio long weekend that year, this woman from Alava was on vacation with her family in Segovia and intense pain put her on alert. “I called the gynecologist as soon as I got back, because I knew something was wrong,” she remembers. The tests they performed confirmed her worst fears and just a few weeks later, June 13, 18 years agoentered operating room.
This woman from Alava, who recently the consequences of the entire disease process and its treatment have forced her to have a pacemaker, is clear that “you can’t stay idly, regretting you.” Far from doing so, she has chosen to survive and do it, like what she is, a woman of weapons.
Spit just finished an archery course along with ten other women from the Alava Association of women affected with breast and/or gynecological cancer of Álava, Asamma.
Txus receives the notions from his instructor during the archery class. Euskadi Editorial Team
This sporting practice, according to ‘Arc and Health’ study, It is beneficial for people who have suffered breast cancer and, especially, those who are diagnosed with lymphedemaan ailment that usually appears after the removal of the breast and lymph nodes of the armpits and lack of drainage causes obstruction of the lymphatic system.
The secret is in the vibration of the bow
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Apparently, “low intensity vibrations caused by the bow when releasing the string helps prevent inflammation from lymphedema”explains instructor José Gallardo. Removal of lymph nodes can cause “a buildup of fluid because they have no return drainage” that affects part or the entire arm. This is not the case of Txus who, with some irony, admits that “of the little I haven’t had was lymphedema.”
When Gallardo del Mercedes-Benz Archery Club contacted them to tell them “that the vibration of the bow gives a kind of small massage that improves lymphedema”, to these women, fought in a thousand battles, that “it sounded like Chinese to us”. They feared that to hold the bow and shoot the arrows a force was needed that they had diminished for cancer and treatment. At home, the news also caused astonishment, in fact, Txus admits that “when my husband and my son heard archery, they looked at me as if I was crazy.”
Part of the group of women from Asamma who have learned to shoot archery. Euskadi Editorial Staff
Finally, 10 of them, many mastectomized, were encouraged and equipped with the corresponding protections, these archers have passed three months shooting his arrows two days a week“using some soft arches that are the most suitable for their circumstances,” Gallardo points out. “When it comes time to throw the feeling is very pleasant and satisfying”Txus summarizes. So much so that she is one of those will continue practicing archery from now on.
Several people practice this sporting discipline in Vitoria. Euskadi Editorial Team
The Spanish Archery Federation published the ‘Arco y Salud’ study in 2022 and, since then, in many cities of the State, groups of brave women have been launched, capable of facing the dreaded cancer armed only with their bodies. and their mind, now try to fight against its consequences armed with bow and arrows. A declaration of intentions.
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2024-05-06 04:30:47
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