Wednesday, March 23, 2011

U of I Football Illnesses

The hospitalization of 13 U of I players in January with a serious and rare muscle disorder, should be a wake-up call to football programs nationwide. U of I law professor William Hines, member of a committee looking into what happened, says greater awareness of rhabdomyolysis will help prevent future cases from happening. The Des Moines Register says one of the recommendations is no more of the "intense high-volume squat-lift workouts” that led to the hospitalizations.

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