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“We know you have lots of questions. Frankly, we do as well,” the university’s president wrote Wednesday.

All of the Tufts University lacrosse players diagnosed with a rare muscle injury have been released from the hospital, more than a week after a workout led by a Navy SEAL training program graduate.

President Sunil Kumar told the Tufts community Wednesday that the university hired a nationally recognized student-athlete health expert and a lawyer to look into how a dozen players were diagnosed with rhabdomyolysis, or rhabdo, following the workout.

D. Rod Walters has decades of experience in college athletics and sports injuries, including conducting similar investigations, such as one involving the death of a student athlete at the University of Maryland. Randy Aliment, a lawyer with Lewis Brisbois firm, will determine what happened at the workout session and review the school’s procedures.

“Moving forward, we must come to a clear understanding of what happened and ensure it never happens again,” Kumar wrote. “We know you have lots of questions. Frankly, we do as well.”

12 players diagnosed with rhabdo last week

On Sept. 16, 50 members of the men’s lacrosse team participated in a 45-minute workout led by a Tufts alumnus who is also a recent graduate of the BUD/S Navy SEAL training program. Kumar said the individual was “invited to lead the session.”

After the workout, 12 members of the team were diagnosed with rhabdo, where muscles break down into the blood, damaging organs. Five days later, on Friday, five members were in the hospital.

The contents of the workout were not released.

Three players were still hospitalized on Monday, and all were released by Wednesday, school officials said. 

“We want to express how grateful we are that the team members have returned to good health,” Kumar wrote. “We commend the team’s resilience, admire how they cared for one another during a difficult time, and thank their families for their unwavering support.”

The Tufts men’s lacrosse team is a Division III team and the reigning national champion of their NCAA division.

Doctor calls situation ‘unusual’, but players should fully recover

Shruti Gupta, director of onconephrology and a physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, told Boston.com earlier this week that the situation is an uncommon one.

“I think it’s unusual for particularly presumably young, healthy, physically fit males to, first of all, be hospitalized at all with this and then, let alone for this long,” Gupta said while several players were still hospitalized. “One has to suspect that potentially, there is some serious organ damage that may have occurred.”

Gupta said overexertion, which is the presumed cause of the Tufts players’ rhabdo, is not the most common cause of the condition. She said it’s more common for rhabdo to appear after trauma or crush injuries, excessive heat exposure, certain medications, or with underlying genetic conditions.

The players will most likely make a full recovery, Gupta hypothesized, due to their age and physical fitness.