Former NFL quarterback Charlie Batch and his sports medicine company Impellia, which focuses on injury prevention, rehabilitation and performance optimization, are exploring “wide-scale implementation” with Michigan Athletics and its 900-plus student-athletes, it was announced Tuesday. The two entities will be working together to analyze product data while the Pittsburgh-based startup Impellia receives feedback from University of Michigan […]
Prior to last season, when a University of Alabama football player was injured in a game, he would be rushed to the sidelines and instantly a flurry of cameras would surround him. Seemingly, the more a player would grimace at the amount of pain that they were in, the closer the cameras would come. So, […]
One of the best to ever play the game of baseball, Babe Ruth dominated Major League Baseball in the early part of the 20th Century. He was part of a natural breed of player—one that excessively drank, ate and indulged in nightlife without many repercussions. But today’s athletes are being monitored as closely as possible, […]
(mlbreports.com) You are never younger than you are right now. While youth is a fleeting and priceless resource for everyone, it is especially valuable to athletes who make a living -and in some cases a brand- on using their bodies to constantly execute elite physical movements.For professional athletes, aging is an inescapable and brutal truth when injuries begin to pile up in the twilight years of a career. In some cases this can lead to a very anti-climactic and frustrating end to some great playing days (We will miss you, Steve Nash).But it’s not all bad news for athletes who constantly have to deal with physical afflictions. For as long as pro sports have existed advances in medical technology have...
