12 Tufts University lacrosse players diagnosed with rare, life-threatening muscle condition after team workout

Tufts University has launched an probe aft 12 members of the men’s lacrosse team were diagnosed with a uncommon and life-threatening musculus wounded pursuing a workout led by a postgraduate who had precocious completed Navy SEAL training. 

The assemblage confirmed successful a connection to The Associated Press that 5 students remained hospitalized with Rhabdomyolysis aft undergoing a 45-minute workout connected Monday. 

A subordinate of the Tufts University men's lacrosse squad looks astatine the Rochester Institute of Technology Tigers extremity during the Division III Men's Lacrosse Championship held astatine Lincoln Financial Field connected May 26, 2024, successful Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.   (Larry French/NCAA Photos via Getty Images)

"Our thoughts are with the players and their families, and we are hoping for their speedy instrumentality to bully wellness nether the attraction of section aesculapian experts," manager of media relations Patrick Collins wrote successful a connection connected Friday. 

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"Meanwhile, we are intimately monitoring the information of the remainder of the squad and person postponed each squad signifier activities until each squad subordinate has been evaluated and medically cleared to instrumentality to participation." 

The athletes sustained a musculus wounded that the Cleveland Clinic describes arsenic "a life-threatening information that tin hap aft an wounded oregon excessive workout without rest."  

Tufts University lacrosse players observe a extremity during the Division III Men's Lacrosse Championship held astatine Lincoln Financial Field connected May 26, 2024, successful Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  (Larry French/NCAA Photos via Getty Images)

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According to the AP, the workout was led by a postgraduate of the assemblage who had completed Navy SEAL training. The postgraduate was not identified. 

Collins told The Boston Globe that 7 players had been released from the infirmary aft receiving treatment. He added that 50 students had taken portion successful the workout and that caput manager Casey D’Annolfo had not been contiguous during the session.  

Tufts University players dump a portion onto Casey D'Annolfo, caput manager of the men's lacrosse team, aft the Division III Men's Lacrosse Championship connected May 26, 2024. (Larry French/NCAA Photos via Getty Images)

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Rhabdomyolysis causes the muscles successful the assemblage to interruption down and tin pb to musculus death, according to the Cleveland Clinic. If this happens, toxins from the musculus fibers tin participate the circulatory strategy and tin adjacent origin kidney damage. 

An mean of 26,000 radical successful the U.S. make this information each year. 

The Associated Press Contributed to this report. 

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