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Current and Potential Applications of Wearables in Sports Cardiology
The use of wearables in sports cardiology is very common among athletes and highly active individuals, even though its value is not well established. What does the evidence tell us?
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3 Considerations for Integrating Wearables into Sports Performance Monitoring
The past decades have witnessed an explosion of the development of wearable devices aimed at improving sport performance. Simultaneously, the excitement (and pressure) to integrate wearables as athlete monitoring tools has grown. Any sports scientist will tell you that sports performance is influenced by many factors – peak performance requires careful training prescription, effective recovery techniques, and proactive injury management, among other factors. The breadth of available wearables combined with the web of factors that influence sports performance makes it challenging for users to select the right tool for the job.
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Spin-offs in Sports Tech #9: IDRO
For the ninth article in our series about academic spin-offs, we spoke to the people from IDRO BV, a spin-off bringing to market real-time sweat lactate measurement. Maarten Gijssel (managing director), Pierre Padilla (CFO), and Kevin Van Hoovels (doctoral researcher) shared their insights and lessons learned.
Blood lactate concentration is often measured during clinical exercise testing and performance testing of athletes, but the current main method is still invasive and other indirect methods do not provide accurate & real-time results. IDRO is changing this by measuring lactate levels through skin sweat, allowing the athletes and coaches to check their levels immediately on their phones to improve their training, performance, and recovery.
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Portable and Low-Cost Markerless Motion Capture Systems to Assess Kinematics in Sport
Markerless motion capture systems have improved drastically over the last 20 years. What are the capacities and considerations for implementing these types of systems?
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Spin-offs in Sports Tech #8: Springbok Analytics
This time in our series about academic spin-offs in sports tech, we’re focusing on a very exciting company called Springbok Analytics. We interviewed Silvia Blemker, Co-Founder, and Savannah Benusa, Director of Strategy and Operations, to find out about their key insights and lessons learned so far.
Springbok Analytics has an AI-powered platform that transforms MRI scans into 3D analyses of muscle. With these analyses, they are able to provide objective insights to inform physicians, physical therapists, athletic trainers, and scientists. These insights are then used for the benefit of injury management, performance optimization, or the treatment of MSK conditions.
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Establishing a Global Standard for Wearable Devices in Sports and Exercise Medicine
Millions of datapoints are generated daily from consumer sport and fitness wearables. The need for a global standard is rapidly growing.
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Maximizing impact as an academic with a personal impact development plan
Most business researchers and educators strive to create an impact on academia, business and society. How can they achieve this ambition?
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Machine learning methods in sports injury prediction and prevention
Machine learning (ML) methods could be helpful in injury prediction and prevention, so which ML methods are currently used and are they accurate?
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Spin-offs in Sports Tech #7: Elipsys
For the 7th article in our series about academic spin-offs in sports tech, we spoke with Adam Kiefer, CEO & Co-founder at Elipsys. Elipsys creates evidence-based learning models that support performance tracking technology to provide players, coaches, and teams with unique performance solutions that accelerate skill learning.
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Webinar insights - Marketing & communication actions for Sports & Health tech professionals
In this guest article Julie Vandenhouweele sums up a few take-aways from our webinar on 16/03, in which she was a panelist together with Alfred Campenaerts and Cheri Bradish.