Even with a large concern for head injuries sports are still flourishing and growing to this day. Something that always remains is heat illness. The article below touches on football and heat illness. Though this article is from 2015 it is still relevant, and those numbers have probably risen.
What you need for this post: -Summarize this article into your own words -Find an article that promotes a way to help with heat illness from 2017-2018 -Post the link and summarize that article -Lastly write how this article could help us here at Leesville Road High School
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9/11/2019 11:55:32 am
The first articles describes the rising catulalies of heat related illness in football, especially, as students wear a lot of gear and are in the hot summer for long hours. It also describes the different heat related illness: heat stroke, heat exhaustion and heat cramps. Risk factors are also mentioned, risk factors include hydration, environment and obesity. The article also mentioned how to prevent these heat related illness and our bodies own management and prevention of these illnesses.
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Sadie Allen
9/11/2019 04:11:40 pm
Heat illnesses are extremely prevalent in outdoor sports, and especially football. The rate of heat-related illnesses has increased exceedingly over the past decade, a majority of these illnesses occurring in high school football, then college, then professional. One reason behind this is the limited staff availability in high school and college football compared to professional, and there are many more factors which play into increasing the risk of heat-related illnesses. These can include the fitness of the athlete (whether they are obese), level of hydration, how acclimated they are to their environment, past medical history, medications they are on, etc. Recognizing heat illnesses is important, some symptoms include performance or cognitive deficits, nausea, dizziness, cramping, irritability, etc. The most important things to remember when preventing or managing a heat-related illness is to make sure that the athlete is receiving plenty of fluids, is in a cooler area or out of the sun, is taking off any tight clothing or equipment, and is using cold towels or a fan to decrease their body temperature.
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10/1/2019 11:08:58 am
Heat Illness, despite our best efforts, continues to affect athletes across the country. Since August 2001, 33 athletes have died due to heat illness, and this number only continues to rise. Athletes who suffer from obesity, or who don’t hydrate enough, or who are less fit are more prone to go down due to a heat related illness.
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9/11/2019 12:02:25 pm
Heat illnesses in football have continued to increase and it seems that the most heat related deaths have occurred in high schools, more effort should be put on helping to make sure that these athletes are prepared for practice. It can be more than just making sure that the athlete is hydrated, sometimes the athlete is performing strenuous exercise that they are not used to or the weather may just be too hot for the athlete. Some of the athletes that are more at risk are those who do not exercise often, those who are not as hydrated and also some who are obese.That does not mean that you can only have heat illnesses when it is really hot, they can also happen in cooler temperatures depending on how much exercise is performed. It is important that the athletes start to look out for the symptoms and also the athletic trainer to constantly check the athletes who are working out and watch for any symptoms. Football players seem to be the most at risk athletes for heat related illnesses and therefore there should be more education towards these athletes.
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Analeigh
9/11/2019 12:05:00 pm
Summary: The article speaking on heat related illnesses covers many physiological topics that contribute to health related illness and why. Football players are at a naturally higher risk for heat illness due to the padding and equipment however factors such as obesity, hydration, genetics, endurance levels, and acclimation can influence and raise an athletes risk of heat related illnesses. The first weeks of football practices and workouts typically have the highest amounts of heat related illness due to many reasons such as time of year and endurance. Hyperthermia for an athlete is marked at a core temperature of 104° and should be monitored and treated immediately by removing clothing, providing water, and ice water immersion can help the athlete. The risk and rates of heat related illnesses continue to climb every year in football.
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9/11/2019 12:27:38 pm
Heat related injuries are severe, football is the sport with the most heat related injuries. HRI is so common in football because all of the pads and the environment they are working out in. During summer workouts they are sweating a lot and need more water but don’t get the proper amount of water to continue to work out. It can also occur in moderate to cool environments. Studies show football players who drink water before practice have a lower core temperature. When fluid deficits exceeds 3% to 5% of BW the sweat production and skin blood flow declines. However hyponatremia is also a concern, someone can die from drinking too much water. Studies have shown that living in hotter environment helps protect you from heat related injuries. There is an upward trend of heat related injuries in football for high schools.
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sarah hooper
9/11/2019 12:54:26 pm
this article can help us at leesville because this allows us to help look out for any and all athletes because anyone can be affected. Us as student trainers need to be cautious and always look out for any of the symptoms and try to train the athletes to stay hydrated and if they notice that they are feeling bad they should be able to talk to the sports med students and be comfortable talking to us.
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9/11/2019 01:38:35 pm
Heat in Athletics
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9/11/2019 01:46:19 pm
Recently, there has been more studies on athletes who play football and heat related illnesses. Since the football season starts in the summer, there is a very high likelihood for athletes to suffer from exertional heat illness. When the wet bulb temperature is at 82F and the athletes are participating in strenuous exercise they are at the greatest risk for EHI. Football players in the study were not drinking enough water to counteract how much they were sweating at practice. Although this is a very prevalent cause for EHI there are other factors that could cause EHI. Some of them include fitness level, obesity, heat acclimatization, genetics, medication, and sleep. In high school football, athletes can also experience other factors that can lead to EHI like feeling pressured to do well and perform at a high level that they may not be at or not having the knowledge to know how to take care of their bodies.
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sarah hooper
9/12/2019 10:55:19 am
http://www.nfl.com/trainingcamp/story/09000d5d8008612b/article/preventing-heatrelated-illnesses
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Katelyn Nguyen
9/12/2019 10:56:32 am
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/319570.php
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Avery Mataka
9/12/2019 11:02:07 am
Heat stroke is defined as marked hypothermia, or when the body temperature is over 104°F, causing central nervous system dysfunction. Symptoms can range from cramps and mild discomfort to multiorgan dysfunction or even death. Classical hypothermia is caused by the environment while the heat causing exertional hyperthermia is generated from a metabolic source derived from strenuous exercise. Most football players suffer from exercise-induced hyperthermia and are especially at risk because of their many pads and low fitness level at the beginning of their season. However, heat stroke can be prevented by immediately removing excess padding and administering cold IV fluids and immersion in ice water.
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Tayah Willoughby
9/27/2019 11:24:16 am
Exertional Heat Illness is on the rise in sports and needs attention to it. Even with efforts to raise awareness of hydration, heat related deaths in sports, football especially, are growing immensely. There are many general risk factors such as: hydration status, obesity, fitness level. There are even football-specific risk factors like timing of training camp and equipment. At the high school level of football, no changes have been made to help lower the instances of heat related deaths and even at the collegiate level very little has been done. More should be done to help prevent EHI and heat related deaths.
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