caution
The MIAA / MSAA Office will be closed the week of July 29 through August 2 for our annual shutdown. The office will reopen at 8 am on Monday, August 5.
Mission Statement
Advise on Sports Medicine issues as they relate to rules writing, programs, and services
Monitor and disseminate information relating to Sports Medicine
Work with the MIAA to educate our constituency on Sports Medicine issues
Proactively address health and safety issues of concern to the MIAA membership
Concussion education and prevention
National High School Sports-Related Injury Study
Please consider participating in the National High School Sports-Related Injury Surveillance Study, where you can help move toward the goal of reducing the rate and severity of sports-related injuries among high school athletes. CLICK HERE to learn more.
Position Papers
National Athletic Trainers' Association (NATA)
- National Athletic Trainers’ Association Position Papers
- NATA: Exertional Heat Illness-Recommendations and Prevention
NFHS
- NFHS Heat Acclimatization and Heat Illness Prevention Paper
- Hydration
- Sports Medicine Position Statements and Guidelines
- Sports Related Skin Infections
- 2022 NFHS Sports-Related Skin Infections Position Statement and Guidelines
- 2022 NFHS General Guidelines for Sports Hygiene, Skin Infections and Communicable Diseases
Resources
CPR / Sudden Cardiac Arrest / AED
- MA Legislature of CPR for Coaches
- Is Your School Prepared to Handle Sudden Cardiac Arrest?
- NATA Sudden Cardiac Arrest Info
AED Information:
Helpful information regarding Automated External Defibrillator (AED)
Emergency Action Planning
- NFHS High School Today Article (December 2021) “Emergency Action Plans: Practice Makes Perfect”
- Anyone Can Save a Life- Emergency Action Planning Program
- NHFS “The Collapsed Athlete” Online Course from NFHSLearn.com
- NATA Position Statement: “Emergency Planning in Athletics”
- KSI: “Emergency Action Plans”
Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE Virus)
Lightning Safety
- NFHS Lightning Memo – April 2024
- NFHS SMAC Guidelines on Handling Practices and Contests During Lightning or Thunder Disturbances
- NFHS High School Today Article (May 2021) – “Schools Should Establish Proactive Lightning Policy”
- NFHS High School Today Article (April 2018) – “Guidelines for Developing Lightning Safety Policies”
Hydration / Food / Dietary Supplements
Dietary Supplements
DANGEROUS: Food and Drug Administration Says Dietary Supplements containing BD, GBL, and GHB can kill you!
Dangerous products sold as dietary supplements for bodybuilding, weight loss, and sleep aids have been linked to deaths and severe sickness requiring hospitalization. These products are made from chemicals named:
- gamma hydroxybutyric acid (GHB),
- gamma butyrolactone (GBL),
- and 1,4 butanediol (BD).
Swallowing any of these ingredients may make you extremely sick and may even kill you.
BD, GBL, and GHB are used to make floor stripper, paint thinner, and other industrial products. FDA determined that dietary supplements containing these chemicals are really unapproved drugs because of the effect they have on the body. It is illegal to sell anything for human consumption that contains GHB, GBL and BD. They can cause breathing problems, coma, vomiting, seizures and sometimes death. GHB, GBL and BD also increase the effects of alcohol and are even more dangerous when taken along with other drugs.
Items that contain BD include Revitalize Plus, Serenity, Enliven, GHRE, SomatoPro, NRG3, Thunder Nectar and Weight Belt Cleaner. GBL product names include: Longevity, Revivarant, G.H. Revitalizer, Gamma G, Blue Nitro, Insom-X, Remforce, Firewater and Invigorate. Previously, FDA warned consumers not to drink the products named Cherry fX Bombs, Lemon fX Drops and Orange fX Rush.
The dangerous products may list 1,4 butanediol, tetramethylene glycol, gamma butyrolactone or 2(3H)-Furanone di hydro on the label – but some products have no label at all.
GBL-related products are listed as “party drugs” on internet sites, advertised in muscle-building magazines, and sold in health food stores as dietary supplements. Some of these products have been used as “date rape” drugs.
In 1990, FDA banned the use of GHB, but some companies switched ingredients to GBL and after warnings about GBL, switched to BD. These are all very similar chemicals which the body converst to GHB with the same dangerous effects. GBL-related products have been linked to at least 122 serious illnesses reported to FDA — including three deaths.
For more information contact the Food and Drug Administration at 1-888-INFO-FDA or visit their website.