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NEWS
- KSI and PlaySafe Advocate for Athletic Trainers at High Schools
- NFL Webinar on Heat Stroke with Dr. Doug Casa (Registration)
- America’s No. 1 Weather Killer Is Not Tornadoes, Flooding, Lightning or Hurricanes
- All Things AT: Behind the Tape: Dr. Douglas Casa, January 29th, 2021
- Heat is killing more people than ever. Scientists are looking for ways to lower the risk (Science)
- Healthy Young Athlete Podcast June 29th, 2020 What you need to know about EHS
- CIAC Distributes Cold Water Immersion Tubs to 74 Schools (CIAC Sports)
- NFL Partner Korey Stringer Institute Drives Progress in Safety (Player Health)
- Korey Stringer Institute: Progress Made in High School Sports Safety Policies (UCONN Today)
- Returning To Training During A Pandemic (ThreeCycleStrength)
- One in three U.S. high schools have no athletic trainers (Reuters)
- The risks athletes face when there is a lack of athletic trainers
- Standing Tall:Swoboda Overcomes Life-Threatening Ordeal-VirginiaSports
- Collapse and Confusion: The Death of a Juco Football Player (SI)
- Soccer and Extreme Heat: US-France World Cup Match (GMA)
In August 2001, Korey Stringer, a Minnesota Vikings offensive lineman, passed away from exertional heat stroke. During Korey's five-year tenure in the NFL he earned pro-bowl honors. Since the time of Korey's death, his wife, Kelci, worked tirelessly to develop an exertional heat stroke prevention institute to honor her husband's legacy. To that end, she joined forces with exertional heat stroke expert Douglas Casa, Ph.D, ATC, at the University of Connecticut to make this dream a reality and the institute came to fruition in April 2010.
The mission of the Korey Stringer Institute is to provide research, education, advocacy and consultation to maximize performance, optimize safety and prevent sudden death for the athlete, warfighter and laborer.
KSI is partnered with the National Football League (NFL), Gatorade, National Athletic Trainers' Association (NATA), Mission, Camelbak, Kestrel, Defib Tech, and First Line Technology to further advance its efforts and goals.
Recent News
- KSI and PlaySafe Advocate for Athletic Trainers at High Schools January 12, 2023
- NFL Webinar on Heat Stroke with Dr. Doug Casa (Registration) July 24, 2021
- America’s No. 1 Weather Killer Is Not Tornadoes, Flooding, Lightning or Hurricanes June 7, 2021
- All Things AT: Behind the Tape: Dr. Douglas Casa, January 29th, 2021 February 10, 2021
- Heat is killing more people than ever. Scientists are looking for ways to lower the risk (Science) December 6, 2020
- Healthy Young Athlete Podcast June 29th, 2020 What you need to know about EHS December 6, 2020
- CIAC Distributes Cold Water Immersion Tubs to 74 Schools (CIAC Sports) December 6, 2020
- NFL Partner Korey Stringer Institute Drives Progress in Safety (Player Health) December 6, 2020
- Korey Stringer Institute: Progress Made in High School Sports Safety Policies (UCONN Today) August 15, 2020
- Returning To Training During A Pandemic (ThreeCycleStrength) June 18, 2020
- One in three U.S. high schools have no athletic trainers (Reuters) December 12, 2019
- The risks athletes face when there is a lack of athletic trainers November 20, 2019
- Standing Tall:Swoboda Overcomes Life-Threatening Ordeal-VirginiaSports August 24, 2019
- Collapse and Confusion: The Death of a Juco Football Player (SI) July 3, 2019
- Soccer and Extreme Heat: US-France World Cup Match (GMA) June 30, 2019
Recent Research
- Exertional Heatstroke Survivors' Knowledge and Beliefs about Exertional Heatstroke Diagnosis, Treatment, and Return to Play April 18, 2024CONCLUSIONS: Our patients were knowledgeable on the potential seriousness and adverse health effects of EHS and the necessity of TREC for diagnosis. However, educational efforts should be directed towards helping patients understand safe recovery and return-to-play timelines following EHS.Kevin C Miller
- Relationship Between Running Biomechanics and Core Temperature Across a Competitive Road Race March 27, 2024CONCLUSION: Core temperatures and kinetics increased significantly across a race, yet these outcomes were not strongly correlated. The observed kinetic changes may have been attributed to fatigue-related influences over the race.Alexandra F DeJong Lempke
- Cooling Modality Effectiveness and Mortality Associate[d] with Prehospital Care of Exertional Heat Stroke Casualties March 18, 2024No abstractRebecca L Stearns
- Sports drinks do not increase acute kidney injury risk in males during industrial work in the heat when euhydration is maintained, a randomized crossover trial March 7, 2024Industrial workers regularly perform physical labor under high heat stress, which may place them at risk for dehydration and acute kidney injury. Current guidelines recommend that workers should consume sports drinks to maintain euhydration during work shifts. However, the impact of fructose sweetened sports drinks on acute kidney injury risk is unknown. The purpose of […]Whitley C Atkins
- The effect of heat mitigation strategies on thermoregulation and productivity during simulated occupational work in the heat in physically active young men January 26, 2024CONCLUSION: Our results suggest that during a simulated occupational shift in a laboratory setting, additional heat mitigation strategies ([COOL + VEST + H(2)O] and [COOL + H(2)O]) reduced physiological strain and improved box lifting performance to a greater degree than [SUN]. These differences may have been attributed to a larger core to skin temperature gradient […]Margaret C Morrissey-Basler