Implementing exertional heat illness prevention strategies in US high school football

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 124-130

  Kerr, Zachary Y ^a   Marshall, Stephen W ^a,b   Comstock, R Dawn ^c   Casa, Douglas J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^c Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Colorado State University and the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health at the Colorado School of Public Health   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Heat Injury; Heatstroke; High School Athletes; Injury Prevention; Policy; Preseason

Indexed keywords

ACCLIMATIZATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FOOTBALL; HEAT; HEAT INJURY; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; SCHOOL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOOTBALL; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HEAT STRESS DISORDERS; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICAL EXERTION; SCHOOLS; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84891506454     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: 15300315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/MSS.0b013e3182a11f45     Document Type: Article

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