Well here we go again with blaming supplements for a problem instead of sitting back and using common sense. We can always count on the media to operate at this level, just scary when the medical people are there with them.
19 High School Players Diagnosed with Rare Muscle Condition
A doctor sums up the illness that hit 19 members of a northwest Oregon high school football team as “very weird.” They all suffered muscle damage after a preseason camp.
Three of the McMinnville High School players also were diagnosed with a rare soft-tissue condition called “compartment syndrome,” which caused soreness and swelling in their triceps. They underwent surgery to relieve the pressure.
The 19 players all had elevated levels of the enzyme creatine kinase, or CK, which is released by muscles when they’re injured, said Dr. Craig Winkler of Willamette Valley Medical Center in McMinnville. High CK levels can lead to kidney failure if not properly treated.
“To have an epidemic like this is very weird,” Winkler said.
I was directed to this story from Mike Boyle’s blog and found it a little hard to believe that the focus was on creatine. Now maybe it’s just the journalist (…maybe that’s a little strong. how about reporter?) that took the story in this direction, but really? “disease” “epidemic”
Of course school and medical officials are investigating whether or not the players used “power drinks” or supplements, specifically that great evil, creatine. Wonder how many people are investigating this part;
A doctor sums up the illness that hit 19 members of a northwest Oregon high school football team as “very weird.” They all suffered muscle damage after a preseason camp.
Three of the McMinnville High School players also were diagnosed with a rare soft-tissue condition called “compartment syndrome,” which caused soreness and swelling in their triceps. They underwent surgery to relieve the pressure.
The 19 players all had elevated levels of the enzyme creatine kinase, or CK, which is released by muscles when they’re injured, said Dr. Craig Winkler of Willamette Valley Medical Center in McMinnville. High CK levels can lead to kidney failure if not properly treated.
“To have an epidemic like this is very weird,” Winkler said.
Good to know doc, weird you say? Love this conclusion;
Before their symptoms started this past week, the players were at an immersion camp organized by first-year coach Jeff Kearin. Winkler said the players worked out last Sunday at the high school’s wrestling room, where temperatures reached 115 degrees.
Superintendent Maryalice Russell told The Oregonian newspaper she doesn’t believe Kearin’s workout was excessive. She also said she has no evidence steroids or supplements were involved.
At least the doc consulting for FOX gets an obvious possibility right in naming rhabdomyolysis . But of course he then goes ahead and allows the reporter to play Sherlock and come up with his own diagnosis based on ???????? “mysterious disease” “Seriously?????
Come on people, please just stop. I don’t know what happened, but let’s start with the obvious. What were they doing in these workouts and why in a wrestling room at 115 degrees?
If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, IT’S PROBABLY A DUCK. Time for someone to go ask questions and go hunting.
