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Intense physical activity and extreme temperatures can lead to heatstroke. Football players like ex-NFL player Marion Barber can be at greater risk.
Fifty-eight players have died from exertional heatstroke between 1992 and 2024, according to the Korey Stringer Institute at the University of Connecticut, and thousands more are sickened each year.
After Korey Stringer's death in August 2001 from EHS, Korey's widow, Kelci Stringer, settled her lawsuit against the National Football League (NFL) in January 2009. [1] KSI stems from this settlement, with Kelci Stringer teaming up with EHS expert, Dr. Douglas Casa, from the University of Connecticut, and the NFL.
NFL teams at the time didn't have medical training for exertional heat stroke. Some teams are taking extra precautions this year, including more water breaks and early practice times.
Many professional football teams now train in light color uniforms, water and shade are made readily available, and a team doctor is at practice sessions at all times. [citation needed] Korey's wife Kelci worked to establish an exertional heat stroke prevention institute to honor her husband's legacy.
Heat stroke or heatstroke, also known as sun-stroke, is a severe heat illness that results in a body temperature greater than 40.0 °C (104.0 °F), [4] along with red skin, headache, dizziness, and confusion. [2] Sweating is generally present in exertional heatstroke, but not in classic heatstroke. [5] The start of heat stroke can be sudden or ...
The fact that at least 50 high school football players have died of heat stroke during the last 25 years makes this lapse on the part of school officials in Loomis particularly egregious.
Heat exhaustion is a precursor to heat stroke, a severe form of heat-related illness. Heat stroke is more likely than heat exhaustion to cause palor, hot and dry skin, syncope, and dysfunction of the central nervous system (e.g., altered mental status, loss of spatial awareness, loss of bodily movement control, seizures, etc.).