“This is a failure of the strength and conditioning program — an epic failure,” said Douglas J. Casa, chief executive of the Korey Stringer Institute at the University of Connecticut. “Somebody made a dramatic mistake in terms of how the workout was organized in terms of intensity, volume, recovery. Something was dramatically wrong.”

Three Tufts University men’s lacrosse players remain hospitalized with a rare muscle injury participating in a voluntary, supervised 45-minute workout earlier this month.

Three players from the Tufts University men’s lacrosse team remain hospitalized with a muscular condition days after they participated in a team workout.