Basketball star dies after winning shot in team's perfect season

[124Y]

R.I.P.

[Noir]

Originally Posted by dhillon09

There's an actual condition for athletes who exert themselves and then immediately stop exerting themselves which can cause them to go into cardiac arrest, I cannot for the life of me remember the correct term ...

From my rather rudimentary (2nd year uni) understanding, blood can only come back to the heart from the legs as long as the legs are still contracting. If you go from playing an intense game of basketball to instantly no walking, it will reduce the blood flow feeding your heart, and it'll become deprived of the nutrients it needs to contract properly ... it'll only do partial contractions, and eventually you'll collapse/die. This condition can prove deadly especially if you have an enlarged heart because the heart is just a muscle. If it's bigger it'll need more bloodflow ... so it's possible that instead of walking it off and cooling down properly, instantly going from full speed to zero (being picked up and carried around) caused his heart to become deprived and stop functioning. This is why everyone always recommends doing some type of "cool down" exercise after doing hard cardio.

If I'm wrong someone correct me, I did this 2 semesters ago so It's been awhile and I probably missed some points.

Either way, RIP, shitty to go out like that.

I haven't heard of this but if it's true, shouldn't this be more of a concern for hockey players who go full 100% for a minute or two to a complete stop when they go to the bench after a shift.

And they do this 20 or so times a game, night in night out?

[BrRsn]

Originally Posted by Noir

I haven't heard of this but if it's true, shouldn't this be more of a concern for hockey players who go full 100% for a minute or two to a complete stop when they go to the bench after a shift.

And they do this 20 or so times a game, night in night out?

You've got a valid point, I've never thought of that before.

... so I did a bit of research, re-read that section in my textbook and basically

What I said applies to everyone, of all ages, but it's very rare to occur. It is because of the accumulation of toxic byproducts of cellular respiration in the cell. And even if you stop running, your muscles can contract involuntarily to help move blood through the legs, but no where near the capacity as it would if you were actively walking/running etc. So for that to cause death is very rare.


What happened to this guy in the article was "hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). HCM is an inherited condition which causes the heart's main pumping chamber, the left ventricle, to be abnormally thick. Other data supports his statement." This disease is more prominent in younger athletes, and they did a study which documented all the HCM related sudden cardiac arrest incidents within a 10 year span in the USA. Of the effected, greater than 50% were highschool athletes, 22% were college athletes and 7% were professional athletes. Within those groups, the most "dangerous" sports for this to occur in were basketball and football.

So my bad, I applied the wrong condition to what happened to this guy. Both are possible though, so you should always do a cool down after working out hard.


Anyways, sorry for the offtopic, had to correct myself

[PiuYi]

Originally Posted by goo3

you have symptoms? testing for enlarged hearts isn't exactly an everyday type of thing.

can't they detect it from regular EKG tests?

RIP, at least he died happy

[Alar]

Originally Posted by PiuYi

can't they detect it from regular EKG tests?

RIP, at least he died happy

A chest x ray will show you the size of the heart, the ECG will show where the enlarged part is. I also had a stress test done

[PiuYi]

hmm interesting
well ive had ECG's done before so if i do have an enlarged heart hopefully they would have detected it


what kind of limitations/conditions are there for people with enlarged hearts? just curious

[murmur]

rip

[chouchou]

wow, rip.

[racerman88]

that sucks

[hotjoint]

damn thats sad