They blame school leaders and coaches, who they say could have done more to protect the boys during practice by employing more stringent safeguards against heat exertion, as the National Football League and college teams have done.
"In a car, you have brakes, you are not subject to heat, motion, physical exertion and sun glare, and when you add those four stresses in, you have the apparent effect of boater's intoxication," he said.
The heat and exertion take their toll".
For the average runners, the ones who stayed on the course for four hours or more, their faces red with heat and exertion, simply crossing the finish line was victory enough.
Have water freely available at all times, and give student athletes a tightly structured, several-day acclimatization period at the start of every season — especially in summer — with shorter, less intense practices that will help their bodies adjust to the big shifts in heat and exertion of a full game or regular practice.
Still, the correlation between the pain associated with heat or exertion subscale and BPI worst pain item was 0.22.
However, the correlation between the pain associated with heat or exertion subscale and BPI pain interference score was a little lower at 0.25.
Twenty-three inems in three subscales of the questionnaire emerged: pain associated with heat or exertion, pain associated with cold, and abdominal pain and fatigue symptoms.
Results suggested that the 23 symptom-related items clustered into three subscales: pain associated with heat or exertion; pain associated with cold; and abdominal pain and fatigue symptoms.
The Cronbach alphas were 0.94, 0.85, and 0.85 for pain associated with heat or exertion, pain associated with cold, and abdominal pain and fatigue subscales, respectively, showing good internal consistency reliability across all age groups.
