POSTS TAGGED AS Sports medicine

“Ironomics” of Athletes’ Blood Doping

Blood Doping
Autologous blood transfusions (aka “blood doping”) among elite athletes are supposed to be common means of cheating because they [MORE]

Greed with Stem Cells

Stem Cells from Adipose Tissue
It wouldn’t come as a surprise that clinics in foreign countries are offering fraudulent (or at [MORE]

PulseOx-Like Hemoglobin Sensor

Hemoglobin Sensor
It was the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, where many performance times were below records, that trainers became aware [MORE]

Cardiovascular Conditions Among Current Olympic Athletes

Olympic Athletes
What does it say about human health when 7.3% of the world’s elite athletes have underlying cardiovascular conditions? Out [MORE]

A Wearable Noninvasive Blood Monitor

EchoLabs Future Technology Watch Monitor
EchoLabs, a startup in Palo Alto, CA, has a wrist watch monitor which it claims can [MORE]

Meniscus Tissue Regeneration

Knee Meniscus
People may live to be 125 years old, but they won’t outlive arthritis, which in millions of cases degenerates [MORE]

Synthetic ACL Graft

Nanotechnology for ACL Replacements
“A synthetic graft for ACL reconstruction has been developed that integrates with the native bone, promotes growth [MORE]

Jump Tracking

 
Vert Jump Tracker
Many of Tagline’s readers are university-employed scientists and engineers.  Considering the revenue generation of university athletics, could become [MORE]

Highly Sensitive Assay for Athletic Doping

Electrospray Ionization
With athletes’ contracts running, in some cases, to over $100 million, it’s not surprising that some push their [MORE]

Wearable Sensor Measures Body Movements

Mbody Suit
Kuopio, in central Finland, is a small city with many physically fit university students who are involved in competitive [MORE]

Cartilage from Stem Cells

Chondrogenesis
For millions of aging athletes and millions more of arthritis sufferers, an ability to regrow their own shock absorbing [MORE]

An Amazing Device: the Cooling Glove

Cooling Glove
Be sure to look at the video attached to this piece.  It describes how a rapid, but controlled [MORE]

Individuality of Concussions

About 30% of mild concussions cause permanent impairment, but which patients are likely to have that outcome at the [MORE]

Platelet-Rich Plasma Therapy

The idea that a patient’s own blood might be used to grow new soft tissue and repair bone is considerably [MORE]