{"id":6262,"date":"2023-01-26T09:02:29","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T14:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prepstrengthcoach.com\/?p=6262"},"modified":"2023-01-26T11:49:13","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T16:49:13","slug":"heart-healthy-preventing-sudden-death-in-high-school-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prepstrengthcoach.com\/articles\/heart-healthy-preventing-sudden-death-in-high-school-sport\/","title":{"rendered":"Heart Healthy: Preventing Sudden Death"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Robert Huggins, Ph.D., ATC, has been traveling with the Korey Stringer Institute (KSI) for the last four years with a mission. Data shows that more than 90% of sports-related deaths among high school athletes are due to cardiac arrest, exertional heat stroke, traumatic brain injuries and exertional sickling, according to a press release from KSI. And yet, simple, cost-effective strategies can prevent nearly all of these deaths. And tools exist to prevent problems stemming from the heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those are the facts, and Huggins\u2019 mission is to make sure the world knows.<\/p><div class=\"pscsite-billboard-ad-in-content\" style=\"text-align: center;\" id=\"pscsite-2597737838\"><div data-cfpa=\"12108\" data-cfpw=\"12108\" id=\"pscsite-2732269860\"><a data-bid=\"1\" data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/prepstrengthcoach.com\/supplier-partner-connect\/12108\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"notrack\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Speedster950x250Final5\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/prepstrengthcoach.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Speedster950x250Final5.gif?fit=950%2C250&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\"  width=\"950\" height=\"250\"   \/><\/a><\/div><script type=\"text\/javascript\">;new advadsCfpAd( 12108 );<\/script><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Often, he hears the same pushback, and it reveals itself when the words \u201cbudget\u201d or \u201cfunding\u201d rear their ugly heads. Realistically though, these words need not enter the equation when we\u2019re talking about the purchase of a large Rubbermaid stock tank and the need to fill it with ice water. Click this link to see just how easy that is: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rubbermaidcommercial.com\/material-handling\/farm-garden\/stock-tanks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.rubbermaidcommercial.com\/material-handling\/farm-garden\/stock-tanks\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This low-cost solution to saving an athlete\u2019s life shouldn\u2019t even be an item on the agenda. It should just get done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a one-time investment, and it will pay for itself even if it\u2019s used once over 50 years,\u201d says Huggins. \u201cEssentially, we try to identify areas where there\u2019s low-hanging fruit where we can really try to make a difference or make a change. We advocate for these best-practice policies.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Huggins, who is currently President of Research &amp; Athlete Performance and Safety, as well as Director of the ATLAS Project for KSI, focuses on two major areas of research: athlete health and safety, and athlete performance. From a \u201chealth and safety in sport\u201d perspective, his research has focused on improving athletic training services at the high school level, emergency best practices in youth athletes, and the economic impact of medical services rendered by athletic trainers. From an \u201cexercise science\u201d perspective, his research interests include heat illness, hydration, and the assessment of physiological biomarkers, exercise stress, and training load on sport performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe call it the four Hs: head, heart, heat and hemoglobin,\u201d says Huggins. \u201cIn the month of August, heat tends to lead those causes by virtue of when we in the U.S. start our fall athletic seasons. The heat of the summer is when we see a lot of deaths occurring. But, cardiac is the leading cause. I think we&#8217;ve just seen that recently in the media with the coverage of Damar Hamlin and the importance of having emergency action plans, the importance of having AEDs on site, the importance of CPR, first aid training, compression only CPR, and really getting those things going because what you do in the first 30 minutes of any of these causes will indicate whether or not that person will survive.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-measuring-heart-rate-variability\">Measuring Heart Rate Variability<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>For strength and sport coaches at the high school level, it\u2019s often difficult to know when an individual athlete may be approaching his or her breaking point. After all, it\u2019s not easy to see when a given student\u2019s internal body temperature is approaching dangerous levels when all of your student-athletes are giving it their best shot during conditioning drills under a hot sun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Huggins, who now coaches youth hockey but has coached hockey at the high school level, knows this all too well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAs coaches \u2013 and even as performance and exercise scientists \u2013 it is our job to push athletes to their limit,\u201d he says. \u201cThat\u2019s how you see gains in an athlete, by pushing the boundaries. But there is a fine line between pushing a boundary for performance and overdoing it, having a kid go down on your watch. That\u2019s a really tough thing to live with, especially if it results in that kid succumbing to that injury.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For coaches interested in utilizing hardware and software to identify where that line exists, Huggins points at the Polar H10, which he uses for laboratory work and the Polar Team Pro System, which he uses for fieldwork. Both have been developed and optimized over many years by Polar. These hardware systems monitor and measure an athlete\u2019s heart rate over time to capture heart rate variability data, which is one of those biomarkers that identifies variance in exercise stress and training load on individual athletes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSince the advent of the heart rate monitor, which was a very long time ago, Polar has always led the way when it comes to valid and reliable measurements of heart rate,\u201d says Huggins. \u201cWe use them in our laboratory at the Korey Stringer Institute, which is known as the Mission Heat Lab. It\u2019s a state-of-the-art chamber where we bring people up to 104F body temperature. Monitoring those vitals becomes critical when you push someone to the limit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe keep track of heart rate and we know the maximum of an individual. There&#8217;s easy calculations that you can do &#8212; but Polar already had this built in.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Huggins plugs in a test subject\u2019s personalized information before any test. This information is based on their age or their training status, and Huggins and his team can see when the athlete overexerts or their load is too high.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhen you rev that engine too high and the RPMs get too elevated \u2013 same thing with your heart \u2013 you are going to either stop what you&#8217;re doing or you&#8217;re going to get horizontal real quick and you&#8217;re going to pass out,\u201d he says. \u201cWe monitor heart rate very closely for all of those reasons. That&#8217;s the \u2018why.\u2019 But in the field, I&#8217;ve used the Polar Team Pro system, because it has GPS- and accelerometry-based capabilities within the device. It&#8217;s built in a way that allows me to track players&#8217; load on a day-to-day or week-to-week level.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This allows Huggins to understand readiness and resiliency, and where an athlete is starting a practice and ending a practice from a heart-rate perspective. It allows him to tell coaches \u2013 or as a coach, use it as a tool \u2013 to understand exactly how difficult a given drill is for an individual athlete. 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coaches to individualize training sessions, and bring all players up to the same level in a consistent and safe manner, without unknowingly pushing an individual over the threshold of safe exertion that could culminate in catastrophe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s actually better to train each kid individually,\u201d says Huggins. \u201cI know that sounds daunting, but with technology such as this, you can actually see (an athlete) worked his tail off today and it took him longer to get to the same level as (another athlete), but we&#8217;re able to look at that and say, okay, you&#8217;re done today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;ve reached the same load as the other. You didn&#8217;t perform the same amount of distance that he did, but you&#8217;re at that same level. The heart-rate stress was the same. You&#8217;re done for today. We&#8217;re going to go on to tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s also knowing when to stop because sudden death or over-training comes into play when someone pushes beyond their abilities, and that&#8217;s when the body starts to react in ways that aren&#8217;t going to benefit performance and start to become dangerous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhat the Polar Team Pro system does \u2013 how I use it with women&#8217;s basketball, hockey, baseball and soccer here at UConn \u2013 we use these systems to make better decisions about what&#8217;s coming that week,\u201d says Huggins. \u201cWhat am I doing gameday minus one, gameday minus two, gameday minus three? When am I going to push these players? Early in the week? When am I going to focus on strategy? When am I going to reduce my load and allow them to recover? A lot of times we get into these patterns of \u2018more is better,\u2019 when actually, \u2018less with higher intensity\u2019 is probably better because you don&#8217;t have the same wear and tear on your players\u2019 bodies over the course of the week. You can actually see them not only recover, but super compensate for what they&#8217;re working on.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Head Where Your Heart Is: Advocating For Your Athletes<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Regardless of how deeply into the realm of hardware and software coaches are willing to delve at the high school level, there are ways strength and conditioning coaches can help lead the way on preventing sudden death in sport. Though Huggins and his team have already visited over 30 states and met with key stakeholders \u2013 including high school sports safety committees, athletic associations, superintendents, legislators and their staffs, principals, athletic trainers and medical professionals \u2013 the coaches are the ones who spend the most time interacting with students in an athletic setting. Therefore, coaches are key.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHelp us advocate for your athletes,\u201d says Huggins. \u201cThese kids deserve to go home at the end of the day from their sport and they deserve medical care. I have data from a project that I work on called the ATLAS Project, and it shows that there are 7,000 high schools in this country that don&#8217;t have athletic training services of any kind. Athletic trainers are the most appropriate healthcare providers who are trained, in the event, to treat and manage and prevent emergencies.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Coaches can advocate to have an athletic trainer at their practices, at their games, at their schools. They can advocate for what that athletic trainer needs from an equipment standpoint. They can work with booster clubs and the district to fund the purchase of an AED that goes with the coaches at all times. Coaches can reach out to the high school athletic association and tell them that they support the Team Up For Sports Safety project. Coaches can be vocal about shoring up the medical support student-athletes often require in the case of an emergency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAt KSI, we track the deaths that occur across the country in sport, in high school and the collegiate setting,\u201d says Huggins. \u201cMost of the time, unfortunately, it\u2019s a reactive approach to what\u2019s going on. This is a coach\u2019s opportunity to be proactive. It\u2019s an opportunity to learn from cases like Korey Stringer, cases like Damar Hamlin, cases we see in the news all the time. They say, \u201cIt\u2019s not going to happen to me; I\u2019ve been doing this for 20 or 30 years.\u2019 It takes one practice, one kid who isn\u2019t feeling well, one kid with an undiagnosed condition. The impact it can have on a school, on a team, on a community, can be devastating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe best thing you can do for yourself and your athletes is educate yourself. We have so much information at <a href=\"https:\/\/ksi.uconn.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/ksi.uconn.com<\/a>. 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