X-Factor Fitness Solutions Blog Posts Tagged ‘Renal Failure’

Exertional Rhabdomyolysis

By Matt Trudo on November 24th, 2009

Before researching the topic, I knew about rhabdomyolysis from a clinical standpoint. I had experienced caring for patients in the ICU (most of which were crush patients) who developed “rhabdo”, but was unaware of its prevalence in the non-clinical setting. Rhabdomyolysis comes from the Latin roots rhabdo meaning striated, myo refers to muscle, and lysis [...]