The mystery doctor who devised a plan to wrap New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady’s thumb in black KT Tape before Sunday’s AFC Conference Championship game was world famous orthopedic surgeon Dr. Neal ElAttrache, SportTechie has learned. At the time, a KT Tape marketing brand manager, Jacki Cassady, remembers a doctor approaching her and asking […]
NSF International has launched a new app to provide athletes with a carefully catered list of approved supplements that won’t run afoul of the stringent testing regulations in elite sports. The global non-profit public health advocacy group received input from Major League Baseball and its players association in developing the Certified for Sport app that […]
At the annual conference of the Professional Baseball Athletic Trainers Society late last week in Glendale, Ariz., KT Tape’s brand marketing manager, Jacki Cassady, was working a convention booth when she was approached by a doctor with some questions on how the company’s kinesiology tape might help a very specific abrasion in a very particular […]
In conjunction with the ongoing Australian Open, that country’s tennis governing body is, for the first time, publicly releasing a large batch of raw optical tracking data in hopes of crowdsourcing an automated solution for scoring matches. Tennis Australia is offering $8,500 (USD) in prize money to the top three entrants of this unique hackathon […]
The president of the NFL Players Association said on a panel held at the annual Consumer Electronics Show that data collected from wearables technology belongs to the athlete. Eric Winston, a 12-year offensive lineman most recently with the Cincinnati Bengals, gave the example of a running back’s 80-yard run. While the performance (i.e. the rushing […]
