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http://bleacherreport.com/articles/...-injures-can-be-drastically-reduced-heres-how
Very interesting article, covers
-CBA rule changes which seem to have raised the rate of preseason injuries
-technologies to identify players at-risk for ACL tears
-changes to traditional NFL camps/practices that could lower injury rate
-resistance of some coaches/teams to embrace the ideas (the Eagles are apparently an early-adopter, maybe us too?)
brief excerpts:
"You can reduce risk [of non-contact ACL injuries in the NFL] somewhere between 50 and 70 percent," according to Dr. Timothy Hewett, director of biomechanics and sports medicine research at the Mayo Clinic, who has researched knee injuries for over 20 years.
"There are things that can be done that have been demonstrated again and again to work in randomized trials. With neuromuscular training, we can reduce those risk factors."
So NFL teams (or any other sports teams) can identify athletes with high ACL risks, alter their training regimens and lower their non-contact-injury risks by more than half.
But here's the bad news: Not many teams are doing it.
"The data is there, but the implementation and compliance is very weak," Hewett said.
Wearable technology can gauge and quantify the player fatigue that leads to bad biomechanics and injuries—a wide receiver suddenly taking many more strides to achieve the same speed, for instance. It can measure the loads on knees and joints, forces that lead to the abduction and adduction that lead to ACL tears.
Wearable technology can essentially be used as an early-alert system for soft-tissue injury risk. Fifteen NFL teams are on-the-record Catapult clients. Dozens of NCAA teams use the technology as well.
But hooking monitors to players is useless if coaches do nothing—or the wrong things—with the data.
Very interesting article, covers
-CBA rule changes which seem to have raised the rate of preseason injuries
-technologies to identify players at-risk for ACL tears
-changes to traditional NFL camps/practices that could lower injury rate
-resistance of some coaches/teams to embrace the ideas (the Eagles are apparently an early-adopter, maybe us too?)
brief excerpts:
"You can reduce risk [of non-contact ACL injuries in the NFL] somewhere between 50 and 70 percent," according to Dr. Timothy Hewett, director of biomechanics and sports medicine research at the Mayo Clinic, who has researched knee injuries for over 20 years.
"There are things that can be done that have been demonstrated again and again to work in randomized trials. With neuromuscular training, we can reduce those risk factors."
So NFL teams (or any other sports teams) can identify athletes with high ACL risks, alter their training regimens and lower their non-contact-injury risks by more than half.
But here's the bad news: Not many teams are doing it.
"The data is there, but the implementation and compliance is very weak," Hewett said.
Wearable technology can gauge and quantify the player fatigue that leads to bad biomechanics and injuries—a wide receiver suddenly taking many more strides to achieve the same speed, for instance. It can measure the loads on knees and joints, forces that lead to the abduction and adduction that lead to ACL tears.
Wearable technology can essentially be used as an early-alert system for soft-tissue injury risk. Fifteen NFL teams are on-the-record Catapult clients. Dozens of NCAA teams use the technology as well.
But hooking monitors to players is useless if coaches do nothing—or the wrong things—with the data.
