Filed under: High School SportsTen Oregon high school football players remain hospitalized as they're treated for a rare soft-tissue condition that has school authorities puzzled.
19 McMinnville High School athletes experienced "compartment syndrome," which caused soreness and swelling in their triceps and high levels of creatine kinase, a protein that can harm the kidneys. Three players had surgery to relieve swelling.
Authorities said the cause was not yet known, but the condition can be the result of exercise or the use of certain medications. All but one of the players who became ill worked out last Sunday at the high school's wrestling room, where one player says the temperature reached 120 degrees.
Senior linebacker and fullback Jack Montgomery, 17, told The Oregonian newspaper he participated in last Sunday's workout and woke up Tuesday with "the worst pain in the world," experiencing stiffness in his triceps and swelling in his arm.
"I saw my elbows disappearing," he said.
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