The rise in heat and humidity across the Midwest has high school football coaches growing more anxious as they look to begin informal workouts. The Associated Press recently featured sports medicine specialist Dr. Kathy Weber in an article discussing some of the proactive approaches that coaches across the Midwest have taken to protect their athletes.
Dr. Weber warned that kids are more prone to heat-related illness and said, "In this really hot weather, with the high humidity, the air vapor level is so high that teenagers often have a difficult time dissipating the heat." Dr. Weber has seen coaches taking more proactive approaches in response to the heat at all levels of sports. "Some coaches are really good about it," she commented.
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