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12 Iowa Hawkeye football players hospitalized | Hawk Central

From UI Sports Information:

Twelve University of Iowa football student-athletes are recovering after being admitted to University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics Monday evening.

A University of Iowa staff physician and football team physician confirmed Tuesday that the student-athletes were responding well to treatment.

"The student-athletes were admitted throughout the course of Monday evening," said the UIHC staff physician. "All of the individuals are responding well to treatment as of Tuesday morning. All are in safe and stable condition. At this time we are not sure when any of the individuals will be discharged. Hospital discharge will be on a case by case basis."

"Coach Kirk Ferentz is out of town recruiting, but he is aware of the situation and is being kept abreast of the progress being made," said Gary Barta, UI director of athletics. "Our No. 1 concern is the safety of our student-athletes, so we are pleased with the positive feedback. Our next step is to find out what happened so we can avoid this happening in the future."

Individual medical conditions, or identity of the student athletes, will not be released. The UI expects no further comment at this time.
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http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=6058427
Twelve Iowa football players are recovering after being taken to University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics Monday evening with a kidney condition, the Cedar Rapids Gazette reported on its website Tuesday.

The Gazette said the Iowa players have Rhabdomyolysis, which is a breakdown of muscle fibers that releases myoglobin into the bloodstream. This can affect the kidneys and be can be caused by excessive exercise.

This corresponds with a posting on the Facebook page of Iowa linebacker Jim Poggi, who wrote he was hospitalized after his urine turned brown.

The school released a clarification Tuesday night saying the players admitted were all participating in NCAA allowable winter workouts and that the symptoms for which the players were being treated were likely related to those workouts.

The school released a statement earlier Tuesday saying the players had been hospitalized, but were recovering.
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I wondered when the media would begin to investigate the coincidence of multiple reported cases of the identical condition.
http://ncaafootball.fanhouse.com/20...s-reportedly-caused-by-exertional-rhabdomyol/

. . . we're not used to hearing about 12 players from one team developing rhabdomyolysis. What happened this time? We can only speculate. Iowa has been open about creatine use by its football players in the past, which has led some to speculate that the mildly controversial supplement may be involved. The International Society for Sports Nutrition is on record as denying a link between creatine and rhabdomyolysis, but opinions differ.

What is beyond speculation is Iowa's record of player development. Kirk Ferentz and his strength and conditioning coach Chris Doyle have routinely taken undersized players from the lower reaches of midwestern high school football and turned them into NFL draft picks. That list includes players like Dallas Clark, a walk-on linebacker from a tiny high school in north-central Iowa who turned into an All-Pro tight end, and Robert Gallery, who turned from a tight end into an elite offensive lineman. Safety Bob Sanders was only recruited by MAC schools; linebacker Chad Greenway didn't get any Division I offers besides Iowa's. Because of their success, Doyle's reputation as a strength coach is solid. Miller told FanHouse, "Many former Hawkeyes that are in the NFL come back to Iowa to train out of season, with Doyle."

This doesn't sound like a staff that doesn't know how to handle its players properly in the weight room. The potentially serious consequences of rhabdomyolysis can't be ignored, but elite strength training usually involves pushing the body right to the jagged edge of breakdown. For 12 players to develop rhabdomyolysis simultaneously suggests Iowa may have pushed too far this time -- but it doesn't prove that it did.

It's better to leave judgment until all the facts are in, and to accept that we may never know what really caused this. Iowa swears it will learn from this incident. It had better. There are lives in the balance.
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gracelhink;1864176; said:
I wondered when the media would begin to investigate the coincidence of multiple reported cases of the identical condition.
http://ncaafootball.fanhouse.com/20...s-reportedly-caused-by-exertional-rhabdomyol/
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My wife, who is a nurse, saw the headlines in the paper about 12 Iowa football players being hospitalized and when she saw that there kidneys were involved she immediately asked me if I had heard anything about them drinking some sort of supplement. These guys could be in pretty bad shape because when the kidneys get involved it is not good.
 
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The minute they hired this guy as S&C coach, things were bound to take a bad turn.

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This story is certainly not over for Iowa.

CBS.Dodd

Was Iowa punishing players?

It is now 72 hours since 13 Iowa players were hospitalized. Details are starting to emerge suggesting that the players were being punished more than getting in shape.

The Sporting News reported Thursday that the players were drug tested, ruling out cocaine and amphetamines that can cause rhabdo. That's great but let's direct some scrutiny at the strength coaches who were conducting the workouts. I'm no doctor but I'm guessing players have taken drugs -- gotten drunk too -- and survived offseason workouts.

Information later in the story suggests that the workouts were punitive more than performance-related.

"I don't know all the details, but I'm pretty sure a few of them went out on the weekend, had a good time, the first weekend back at school instead of recovering and resting like they should have been doing," said former player Christian Ballard.

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Coach Kirk Ferentz finally met with parents and players Wednesday night. Meanwhile, Iowa has started an investigation . The next question that needs to be asked is if there was a medical staffer with the players during the workouts. The NCAA states that a medical staffer with power to alter or shut down workouts must be at every organized training session.

If that staffer was there, what did he/she see? Did he/she consider shutting down the workout? Why or why not?

If I'm a parent, I'm extremely upset my son has been in the hospital all week.


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Without getting into specifics, there is just no way that 12 players could come down with the same rare medical condition without chemical contribution of some sort.

It doesn't matter whether the workouts were truly for conditioning or for punishment. There is chemical involvement. And whatever the involvement is needs to be identified and then stopped.
 
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