Following his near-victory and then eventual submission loss to UFC champ Brock Lesnar this past weekend at UFC 116, Shane Carwin blogged about his body “seizing up” after an active first round.
Carwin maintains his “cardio was fine, but my body was not.”
In a bonus installment of “Ask the Fight Doc,” MMAjunkie.com medical columnist Dr. Johnny Benjamin discusses what could have caused such a turn of events and how epinephrine surges physiologically are quite similar to anxiety attacks.