�������t¶��

This parent said their child was hospitalized with rhabdomyolysis, or rhabdo, a serious medical condition where overworked muscle tissue breaks down and releases a harmful protein into the bloodstream.

The protein is known to cause kidney damage, but rhabdo is treatable if caught early.

Ue kept the IV fluids going and looked for a reason for the worst case of rhabdo she had ever seen.

In search of an answer, she turned to the medical literature and found a paper describing two young people who, like her patient, developed severe rhabdo after a moderate workout.

“My initial thought is that it’s probably a bad muscle strain,” Raizman recalled, “or that he might be getting a little rhabdo” from overuse.