All right, we'll shift gears a little bit, talk wearable tech. Again, nothing to disclose. While we're here, let's talk the what. Obviously, everybody knows at this point what it is. A little bit of the why, how we're using it, and then a little bit of where we see it going in the future. So obviously, devices weren't to track health and fitness information, pretty straightforward. Some really neat examples you've heard, starting with Dr. Sills this morning, right on through. Let's talk about examples. Wearable tech in helmets, mouth guards, RFID tags on knee braces, RFID tags in shoes. These are just a couple of the ways that everyone is tracking data at the NFL level in terms of biomechanics. Motion sensors, catapult, zebra, everybody's accustomed to a receiver running 20 miles an hour, 23 miles an hour is really fast. That comes from those sensors. And then you've heard a lot about this today, physiological sensors. The whoop bands, how guys are sleeping, how they're recovering, the aura rings. Again, how they're sleeping, how they're recovering. And again, this MOXIE sensor, these oxygen sensors, will measure blood oxygen. We'll get into that here in a little bit. So why are people using them? Obviously, objective information to make more informed decisions. Preparation and planning, how you set your schedule up. Load management, we heard a lot about that with Kyle. Return to play decisions. Recovery decisions, how you recommend your athletes recover. And then something that I think is actually really cool, injury risk and then injury modeling, prediction models moving forward. Let's drive this home again. You get all that information. But it doesn't work in silos. So this objective information drives your conversation across departments to provide great care for your athletes. Think about this. Let's just run down this list and think of the number of practitioners at the NFL level that's affecting an athlete's return to play. On average, a team has roughly five to eight athletic trainers, four strength coaches and maybe a performance director. A couple nutritionists, call it three there. Couple sports scientists crunching the numbers, giving you reports, call it three there. A couple mental health clinicians, two, three there. You have a player engagement director. You have a team security director, two there. You've typically got three to six people in your equipment room that are handling all these RFID tags on braces and shoes and helmets, et cetera. Obviously, Kyle talked about the importance of your coaching staff. I think we have 32 coaches, right? So I mean, you see how this number grows exponentially and how this information can kind of stimulate conversation, but also everybody's talking the same language when you're talking about your players. So let's talk prep and planning. First and foremost, strength and conditioning. Your first two weeks of an NFL off season are just lifting. They're just running, right? Let's put these sensors on these guys as they run, what they're doing in the weight room. Are we getting close to the demands of what we're going to ask them to do when they get on the field in phase two? Are we getting a linear yardage? Are we getting a change of direction yardage? Are they accelerating fast? Are they decelerating fast? Are we covering that early on? These sensors are providing that data for us. Let's talk our rehab process. I can't tell you the last time in the last four years where we've had a guy run in a return to play scenario, and I didn't know he ran 542 60% yards, or x amount of yards over 80%. Did he touch his 90% threshold? These sensors are providing that information for us to make good decisions as we return guys to play. Lee Weiss, you're a shout out of the crew today. Practice planning, right? Training camp, the first five days of training camp, have you ramped right? Have you ramped right the second ramp, right, when you put shoulder pads on? Are you handling your game adaptations right with your players through your first four pre-season games? And as you transition in season, are we getting the right workloads through the first five weeks, right? You cut your roster from 90 to 53. Are we managing our players the right way? Are we handling the intensities right in November and December? How about the post-season, 2020, Cleveland Browns, just so we know, post-season? Are we managing that right, okay? Are guys getting enough work? Are we handling it? These sensors are providing us with information to set the plans to make sure we're handling our players accordingly. And then we talked about game planning. Kyle talked a little bit about the pre-season. Let's talk about the regular season. Are guys getting enough in the game, right? Are your special teams guys getting too much? Do you have to think about them the following Wednesday? Or what they do on Monday in terms of recovery? These are all things in the prep and planning phase that you're getting information from these sensors. Load management, right? I think this is predominantly NBA. It is rampant in the NFL. It is individualized load management of your players on your roster to keep them available. Again, how are you managing them in the weight room? Kyle talked about six periods at the end of practice versus six periods at the beginning of practice. I like to think of it five to 10 reps, 10 to 15 reps of team stuff, 20 to 25 reps. How many high-speed yards are they getting? Same thing in the game. We talk about speeds. We talk about distances. We talk about accelerations and decelerations. Return to play, right? We have a greater understanding of what our athletes are required to do both functionally and physiologically than we've ever had. So our return to play processes are more fine-tuned than they've ever been. You can track athletes in rehab. Again, practice, games. Pete's going to get into it a bit with the screens and the functional testing. All of these things come from wearable tech that allows you to make more informed decisions. Recovery, whoop bands, aura rings, readiness scores, heart rate, heart rate variability, sleep, stress, all these things factor into how your athletes recover. Individualized recovery programs, all these things come from wearable sensors. As I drop the water. This is the coolest thing that happened to me in sports medicine in the last five years. This is the next generation. Injury prediction modeling. The work that's getting done from these wearable technology sensors, the work being done with engineers, the head impacts, right? Patrick Mahomes sustains a high ankle sprain in the AFC Championship game. Let's run that 30 million times in 30 million different scenarios and see what it looks like. The amount of data that's being collected from wearable technology and how it's driving decisions moving forward is really fascinating. The digital athlete, the things that are at your fingertips as a practitioner, the things that are at your fingertips as a practitioner, really the next day, the same day, this stuff is going to change the way we practice sports medicine over the next couple of years. It's an incredible amount of information. So what does the future look like, right? Let's take wearable tech and say, what does it look like in the future? One, again, you're going to get improved data from all of the tech, okay? With that, you're going to get improved injury prediction models. Full stop, the more data you put in, the more predictions you're going to be able to get out of it. The ability of Watson to run these simulations and give you real-time information and predictions, it's really going to change our profession. And then, kudos to Dr. Vuce here a little bit, I think we're going to see improved physiological monitoring with wearable tech and your prediction in terms of return to play, right? Let's talk about the mind-body relationship. Let's talk about the moxie sensors, the oxygen sensors. It's really the potential to measure and track restoration of normal physiological function in real time. It's like a gas gauge of your body in real time, right? Oxygen sensors and NOx, these are new sensors being developed as we speak that are going to track muscle nitric oxide. These things in five years, our next talk will be about these and how they're driving the change in sports medicine. Again, I'd be remiss if I didn't put this little headline down here of Dr. Vuce and his work with moxie and oxygen tech in terms of ACL rehab. Again, more data, better decisions, better practice, better sports medicine. This stuff is going to change the game moving forward. As practitioners, it's kind of like get on the train, right? Learn the metrics, learn what they do, learn how they can help you make good decisions because in three to five years, all of this technology, all of this data will be mainstream. Thank you.

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