Heat-related illness in sports and exercise

Nichols, Andrew W.

doi:10.1007/s12178-014-9240-0

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“…No questions about heat acclimatization were included in the questionnaire. Past studies indicated that heat acclimatization not only improves exercise capacity in hot environments 17) , but also prevents heat illness 18 , 19) . Indeed, the Japanese government requires strict heat illness preventive programs for workers who have not been acclimated to heat stress 20) .…”

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Preventive measures and lifestyle habits against exertional heat illness in radiation decontamination workers

Endo

Kakamu

Sato

et al. 2017

Journal of Occupational Health

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Objectives: The aim of this study was to reveal the current state of preventive measures and lifestyle habits against heat illness in radiation decontamination workers and to examine whether young radiation decontamination workers take less preventive measures and have worse lifestyle habits than the elder workers. Methods: This was a cross-sectional study. Self-administered questionnaires were sent to 1,505 radiation decontamination workers in Fukushima, Japan. Five hundred fifty-eight men who replied and answered all questions were included in the statistical analysis. The questionnaire included age, duration of decontamination work, previous occupation, lifestyle habit, and preventive measures for heat illness. We classified age of the respondents into five groups: <30, 30-39, 40-49, 50-59, and ≥60 years and defined the workers under 30 years of age as young workers. Logistic regression analysis was used to reveal the factors associated with each lifestyle habit and preventive measures. Results: In comparison with young workers, 50-59-year-old workers were significantly associated with refraining from drinking alcohol. Workers 40 years of age or older were significantly associated with cooling their bodies with refrigerant. Furthermore, 30-39-year-old workers and 40-49-year-old workers were significantly associated with adequate consumption of water compared to young workers. Conclusion: The results of our study suggests that young decontamination workers are more likely to have worse lifestyle habits and take insufficient preventive measures for heat illness. This may be the cause of higher incidence of heat illness among young workers.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Preventive measures and lifestyle habits against exertional heat illness in radiation decontamination workers

Endo

Kakamu

Sato

et al. 2017

Journal of Occupational Health

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“…121 Additionally, recent evidence suggests that heat-related illness may be increasing with climate change. 122,123 Every year, lightning accounts for dozens of deaths in the United States, although data regarding the incidence among youth soccer participants are not available. 124 Precautions and simple strategies may reduce the risk of injury due to adverse environmental conditions.…”

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Soccer Injuries in Children and Adolescents

Watson

Mjaanes

2019

Pediatrics

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Participation in youth soccer in the United States continues to increase steadily, with a greater percentage of preadolescent participants than perhaps any other youth sport. Despite the wide-ranging health benefits of participation in organized sports, injuries occur and represent a threat to the health and performance of young athletes. Youth soccer has a greater reported injury rate than many other contact sports, and recent studies suggest that injury rates are increasing. Large increases in the incidence of concussions in youth soccer have been reported, and anterior cruciate ligament injuries remain a significant problem in this sport, particularly among female athletes. Considerable new research has identified a number of modifiable risk factors for lower-extremity injuries and concussion, and several prevention programs have been identified to reduce the risk of injury. Rule enforcement and fair play also serve an important role in reducing the risk of injury among youth soccer participants. This report provides an updated review of the relevant literature as well as recommendations to promote the safe participation of children and adolescents in soccer. Soccer is the most popular youth sport in the world and is 1 of the most popular team sports in the United States. 1 It is estimated that 3.9 million children and adolescents participate in soccer annually, 2 and from 1990 to 2014, the number of youth officially registered with US youth soccer programs increased by almost 90%. 3 Despite the wide-ranging health benefits of participation in organized sports, injuries occur and represent a threat to both athlete health and performance. 4 Unfortunately, recent studies suggest that injury rates in youth soccer may be increasing. Sportsrelated injuries represent a significant and increasing economic burden to the health care system, and the prevention of sports-related injuries in children has far-reaching health and economic benefits to the patient, the family, and the health care system as a whole. Given the number of children and youth participating in youth soccer, reducing the risk of injury among such a large group of participants has the potential to reduce attrition rates, promote lifelong participation in sport, and facilitate the

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“…In this regard, hyperthermia is known to reduce physical and athletic performance [4,5], altering cardiovascular function and leading to both peripheral and central fatigue [6]. Furthermore, exertional heat stroke may occur when core temperature reaches 40 • C and the subject begins to suffer changes in mental status [7]. Nonetheless, highly trained endurance athletes respond physiologically as if they were already heat acclimatized [8], and present less adaptive potential in comparison with moderately trained athletes or untrained subjects [9].…”

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A Matter of Degrees: A Systematic Review of the Ergogenic Effect of Pre-Cooling in Highly Trained Athletes

Rodríguez

Piedra

Sánchez-Fernández

et al. 2020

IJERPH

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The current systematic review evaluated the effects of different pre-cooling techniques on sports performance in highly-trained athletes under high temperature conditions. PubMed/MEDLINE, EMBASE, Web of Science, CENTRAL, Scopus, and SPORTDiscus databases were searched from inception to December 2019. Studies performing pre-cooling interventions in non-acclimatized highly-trained athletes (>55 mL/kg/min of maximal oxygen consumption) under heat conditions (≥30 °C) were included. The searched reported 26 articles. Pre-cooling techniques can be external (exposure to ice water, cold packs, or cooling clothes), internal (intake of cold water or ice), or mixed. Cooling prior to exercise concluded increases in distance covered (1.5–13.1%), mean power output (0.9–6.9%), time to exhaustion (19–31.9%), work (0.1–8.5%), and mean peak torque (10.4–22.6%), as well as reductions in completion time (0.6–6.5%). Mixed strategies followed by cold water immersion seem to be the most effective techniques, being directly related with the duration of cooling and showing the major effects in prolonged exercise protocols. The present review showed that pre-cooling methods are an effective strategy to increase sports performance in hot environments. This improvement is associated with the body surface exposed and its sensibility, as well as the time of application, obtaining the best results in prolonged physical exercise protocols.

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Heat-related illness in sports and exercise

Cited by 63 publications

References 89 publications

Preventive measures and lifestyle habits against exertional heat illness in radiation decontamination workers

Preventive measures and lifestyle habits against exertional heat illness in radiation decontamination workers

Soccer Injuries in Children and Adolescents

A Matter of Degrees: A Systematic Review of the Ergogenic Effect of Pre-Cooling in Highly Trained Athletes

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