Hello docs, my friend has been troubled with this bad chest pain that was diagnosed as above mentioned. Its been troubling for about a year now.
He says that it used to hurt whenever he would breathe very deeply, or run out of breath when playing basketball, even just get tight for a deadlift.
In other words, it was very easy to trigger the pain that he described as pretty bad and uncomfortable. Because of it he quit training a year ago.
Its worth mentioning that year later, its still there but it hurts very little.
Now, i am very much familiar with your basic recommendations for treating pain and injury and training around it, (Been following you for years, great work) finding the proper intensity / volume / movement that would allow us to train pain free, or at least with minimal pain without noceboing ourselves with demonizing the condition.
I tried many times to convince him to get back to training, isolation movements, hell, deadlifting an empty bar, whatever, just to get back to the gym. He is very much afraid to do that, and i suppose i am not credible enough for him to trust me blindly that, if nothing else, attempting to get back to training wont give him cancer. That properly designed programming could only be helpful.
My question at the end is - Do you have any specific recommendations for this condition, any interesting experiences worth sharing or just good ole, whachu gonna do, not train? Thank you for your time, all help is appreciated.