Sports medicine & Kinesiology

Padded helmet cover shows little protection for football players

As a former football player at Aptos High School in California and Princeton University, David Camarillo, Ph.D., an associate professor of bioengineering, experienced migraines from the head-banging the sport is known for.

Health informatics

Can smartphones predict mortality risk?

Passive smartphone monitoring of people's walking activity can be used to construct population-level models of health and mortality risk, according to a new study publishing October 20 in the open access journal PLOS Digital ...

Neuroscience

Robotics exoskeleton for shoulder rehabilitation

A team from the Centre for Automation and Robotics (CAR, UPM-CSIC) has developed a robotic exoskeleton for efficient rehabilitation therapies for patients with shoulder injuries. By using strength and motion sensors, the ...

Health

A device to prevent falls in the elderly

The EPFL spin-off Gait Up just put an extremely thin motion sensor on the market. It can detect the risk of a fall in an older person and is equally useful for sports and physical therapy.

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