Popular press article discusses our vision for using wearables to help keep runners injury free
In anticipation of the Boston Marathon, inverse.com releases an article on our wearable sensor research to monitor and prevent running-related injuries:
https://www.inverse.com/article/54835-wearables-marathon-running-training
This vision builds upon Emily’s recent paper that highlighted that ground reaction force metrics (like impact peaks and loading rates) cannot be assumed to reflect injury risk or correlate with loading on muscles, bones or joints in the body:
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/metrics?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0210000
In the meantime, here are some words of encouragement, and caution:
Good luck to all running! There's real opportunity to develop #wearables that help runners stay injury free. But it starts w/ getting science right. Beware of wearables on market making dubious claims based on foot impacts, GRF, vague load metrics, weak evidence & sleight of hand https://t.co/KXF2S8Udup
— Karl Zelik (@KarlZelik) April 15, 2019