More on Iowa Football Player Hospitalizations

[Temo]

Apparantly a high intensity squat workout was the cluprit in sending 10% of the team to the hospital with a rare disorder known as rhabdomyolysis, which basically involves muscle fibers being absorbed into the blood stream and later urinated out.

I can't be the only one who wants to see/try this hard core workout now, right?

 

[joseephuss]

http://www.medicinenet.com/rhabdomyolysis/article.htm

What causes rhabdomyolysis?

Rhabdomyolysis has many causes. Some of the common ones include:

* muscle trauma or crush injury,

* severe burns,

* physical torture or child abuse,

* prolonged lying down on the ground (people who fall or are unconscious and are unable to get up for several hours),

* prolonged coma,

* severe muscle contractions from prolonged seizures,

* cocaine use with related hyperthermia (increased body temperature),

* extreme physical activity (running a marathon),

* drug and alcohol intoxication,

* low circulating phosphate, potassium, or magnesium levels in the blood (electrolytes),

* genetic muscle diseases (familial paroxysmal rhabdomyolysis),

* prolonged drowning or hypothermia (low core body temperature),

* medications: most notably statins used to treat high cholesterol [simvastatin (Zocor), atorvastatin (Lipitor), pravastatin (Pravachol), or lovastatin (Mevacor)] and other medications such as Parkinson's medication, psychiatric medications, anesthesia medications, HIV medications, colchicine,

* variety of viruses and some bacteria,

* severe hypothyroidism (low thyroid level), especially if the person is also taking statin drugs for cholesterol,

* lack of blood perfusion to a limb,

* some inflammatory disorders of the muscle, called myopathies, (myositis, dermatomyositis, polymyositis),

* venom from certain snake bites (mainly in Africa, Asia, and South America).

 

[dargonking999]

http://www.medicinenet.com/rhabdomyolysis/article.htm

What causes rhabdomyolysis?

Rhabdomyolysis has many causes. Some of the common ones include:

* muscle trauma or crush injury,

* severe burns,

* physical torture or child abuse,

* prolonged lying down on the ground (people who fall or are unconscious and are unable to get up for several hours),

* prolonged coma,

* severe muscle contractions from prolonged seizures,

* cocaine use with related hyperthermia (increased body temperature),

* extreme physical activity (running a marathon),

* drug and alcohol intoxication,

* low circulating phosphate, potassium, or magnesium levels in the blood (electrolytes),

* genetic muscle diseases (familial paroxysmal rhabdomyolysis),

* prolonged drowning or hypothermia (low core body temperature),

* medications: most notably statins used to treat high cholesterol [simvastatin (Zocor), atorvastatin (Lipitor), pravastatin (Pravachol), or lovastatin (Mevacor)] and other medications such as Parkinson's medication, psychiatric medications, anesthesia medications, HIV medications, colchicine,

* variety of viruses and some bacteria,

* severe hypothyroidism (low thyroid level), especially if the person is also taking statin drugs for cholesterol,

* lack of blood perfusion to a limb,

* some inflammatory disorders of the muscle, called myopathies, (myositis, dermatomyositis, polymyositis),

* venom from certain snake bites (mainly in Africa, Asia, and South America).

with so many causes it's hard to say it was the workouts fault.

They coulda been bitten by a snake while working out

 

[Temo]

with so many causes it's hard to say it was the workouts fault.

They coulda been bitten by a snake while working out

 

[BigWillie]

Pretty sure the Iowa players had severe dehydration which led to their problems.

 

[danielofthesaints]

My best friend had rhabdo. I wouldn't consider it a rare disorder, because it occurs more often than you would think. And yes, he got it from lifting weights.

 

[Temo]

Pretty sure the Iowa players had severe dehydration which led to their problems.

The report specifically states: "Some players had dark, discolored urine in the hours and days immediately following an intense squat-lifting exercise, but failed to report the condition because most believed it was a symptom of routine dehydration, said the report, obtained by The Des Moines Register."

 

[dargonking999]

sarcasm..i was noting the long list of effects.

 

[YosemiteSam]

Last Friday a kid died that my daughter knew. He was a freshman at the local high school. He was running on a treadmill and just collapsed and died. They don't yet know why.\

Very sad deal.

 

[dargonking999]

Last Friday a kid died that my daughter knew. He was a freshman at the local high school. He was running on a treadmill and just collapsed and died. They don't yet know why.\

Very sad deal.

Was he by himself? I find that alot of young players deaths in the weight room occur when they try to workout by themselves, stress there body past a point and then can't get the proper medical care in time, because they were alone.

 

[Temo]

sarcasm..i was noting the long list of effects.

Oh, nvm I missed the snake bites on the list.

 

[YosemiteSam]

Was he by himself? I find that alot of young players deaths in the weight room occur when they try to workout by themselves, stress there body past a point and then can't get the proper medical care in time, because they were alone.

No, he was in a hotel gym with a friend in Mass. His friend said he was trying to run a 5 minute mile.

Here is an article from our local newspaper about it.

 

[dargonking999]

No, he was in a hotel gym with a friend in Mass. His friend said he was trying to run a 5 minute mile.

Here is an article from our local newspaper about it.

so sad..

 

[Baileyneverfailey]

That's very sad. Young people never get truly checked out and they never know when there is a heart condition or something that is going to snap when they push themselves so hard physically.