Shortly after the Portland Trail Blazers step off the court following practice or a game, they’re whisked into a “brain room,” where they watch DVDs with devices strapped to their heads that read the electrical activity in their brains. It’s a scene that might seem peeled from a 1980’s sci-fi movie. This season, the Trail […]
The use of traditional saunas goes all the way back to Native American sweat lodges and sauna baths in Finland, and to this day they are utilized for a myriad of physical and spiritual benefits. In the United States, many individuals have been using saunas for upwards of 70 years in search of pushing their […]
When the Golden State Warriors’ head of sports medicine, Chelsea Lane, first approached assistant general manager Kirk Lacob in the front office with a new device last summer, she explained that Eye-Sync would help the team quickly and objectively assess whether a player might be suffering from concussion symptoms. The Warriors had endured a few […]
The challenge of an ACL tear is twofold. There’s the immediate surgery and yearlong rehab that’s plainly visible when an elite athlete is stricken, but research has shown that roughly half of patients suffer persisting problems in the knee years after the original injury. “What you don’t often see is that, about a decade later, […]
There’s a glut of startups and established companies whose mission it is to provide a quick and accurate way to assess for possible concussions. One startup that recently joined the fray got some significant exposure from the NFL itself. That company is EyeGuide, whose product, Focus, promises a rapid eye movement test that is already […]
