What it is
Excessive muscle breakdown after extreme or unfamiliar exercise that may damage the kidneys and requires urgent assessment.
Typical clinical symptoms
- Unusual muscle pain, weakness and swelling
- Tea-coloured urine or reduced urination
- Systemic illness, nausea or confusion
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Scientific literature
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Perspectives on Exertional Rhabdomyolysis.
Literature review · 2017
Sports Injuries
When is medical assessment needed?
Deformity or an open wound after trauma, immediate loss of function, disproportionate pain with a tense segment, neurological weakness, worsening symptoms after a head impact, collapse during exertion, confusion in heat and very dark urine after exercise require emergency assessment.
Descriptions are for orientation. Diagnosis follows history, clinical examination and, only when indicated, imaging or laboratory tests.
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