Comments on: Hospitalized Hawkeyes diagnosis? ‘Exertional rhabdomyolysis’

By: Deb

Deb — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 02:40:44 +0000

Okay … so this is happening to well-conditioned athletes after they engage in strenuous exercise following a couple of months’ layoff?

Just saw an intervew with the doctor who works on The Biggest Loser. He said they take 300-500-pound people who’ve been sedentary all their lives and quickly bring them up to six hours a day of rigorous training. They have medical teams standing by. I don’t think all those people wind up in the hospital. Something else must be going on. Maybe they’re not giving these players access to enough water.

@PanchoHerreraFanClub …

It’s irresponsible to start firing people until they find out the root cause of the problem.

@southernpatriots …

So how many of you are in there anyway? Is it a commenting consortium … or a Sybil kind of thing? Are you going to tell me “We are not amused”?

By: hrmlss

hrmlss — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 17:05:44 +0000

I believe I read that some of the protein shakes can contribute to this.

By: BC

BC — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 16:49:57 +0000

Well, I knew there had to be a case made as to why I just stay completely inactive. I sure as heck don’t want that – it’s not a medical condition, man, that’s an eye chart! I’m sticking to billiards and darts, thanks very much.

By: sprizzle2182

sprizzle2182 — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 15:48:26 +0000

Hope everyone is okay…this seems like something that could have been prevented by the strength/conditoning coach…

By: lilrabbi

lilrabbi — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 15:38:08 +0000

If you think Mike Florio is a liar, you can take it up with him. Here’s his article from this past NFL offseason:

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2010/08/22/report-haynesworth-likely-has-rhabdomyolysis/

By: cubano76

cubano76 — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 13:02:32 +0000

Doctor: “Coach Ferentz, Your players legs have sustained extensive trauma. Apparently their bodies were in the state of advanced atrophy, due to a period of extreme inactivity. But with a lot of hard work and a little bit of luck, I think there’s a good chance they may, one day, walk again.”

Coach Ferentz: “This was supposed to be ‘The summer of Kirk’! The summer of Kirk!!!!!!!”

By: jakeg88

jakeg88 — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 06:32:12 +0000

Most likely due to players thinking they could hit the weights at their previous max after a couple months of inactivity. Strength training causes muscle tissue damage (hence the CK, potassium, myoglobin in the blood). The body responds by resynthesizing muscle and it overshoots (this is why you get stronger and gain muscle mass). I don’t think you’d get this from cardio, even if it were “3 or 4 a days”. You’d exhaust glycogen and bottom out your blood sugar before you reached rhabdomyolysis from cardio. Your “stone age” symptoms were from low blood sugar, dehydration, lactic acid buildup and cramps. Not this.

By: lilrabbi

lilrabbi — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 05:37:56 +0000

I read a comment in the first article on this saying that there was a “cloud of steroid use” over the Iowa program. In fact, there was one player kicked off the team for prescription pain killer use, another kicked off for marijuana. No roids in either case.

And I first heard of this “exertional rhabdo…etc.” from Mike Florio on PFT talking about one time when he went for a really long run when he wasn’t in very good shape. I don’t think he takes steroids.

By: lbijake

lbijake — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 03:49:45 +0000

Rhabdomyolysis can also lead to brain damage in later life as witnessed by above post.

By: southernpatriots

southernpatriots — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 00:52:17 +0000

“Rhabdomyolysis” so that is what it is called? We had similar symptoms back in the stone age when we were forced into 3 and 4 a day intense practices after goofing off for the off season. Sorry to hear of this, but after some hospitalization and therapy, they all should be fine. We did not get hospitalization, and somehow we eventually became fine. Maybe this will bring about some changes in the practice routines? It was the 3 and 4 a day intense practices in the heat and humidity of the deep South that made us relish the idea of game day!