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How Alabama is so successful with injury recovery and prevention | AL.com-rbr
The Catapult system is utilized by 36 colleges, 15 NFL franchises as well as teams in other sports, according to the company's website. It's been an asset for the Tide with injured players as well as with injury prevention.
A small GPS monitor is attached to every player's shoulder pads for practice. Players will also wear t-shirts with pockets during the summer so the monitors can be used while they go through the team's summer conditioning program. There are more than 200 data points that can be measured, Allen said.
Alabama focuses on four.
1) How many yards does each player run each day?
2) Player load, which Allen said is a "metric that kind of gives you an overall intensity of that particular day."
3) Explosiveness. An explosive movement is moving four or more yards in a second or less. The monitor will keep track of how many times a player does that.
4) Top-end speed in miles per hour.
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rbr op If you don't click on anything else, this is the article you should read. It is rather lengthy, so I couldn't capture everything cool about it in just one quote. However, it would be like a dream for me to work with something like the Catapult system. It tracks daily data on the players, and then analysts can look for abnormalities in the trends. Maybe someone notices that Ardarius Stewart is running slower than usual, so they begin to monitor him for potential injuries.
The article also talks some about nutrition, Kenyan Drake, and the decreasing recovery times for ACL/MCL injuries.
With all the technology, the medical staff at Alabama is really making a difference. Aside from the freak collarbone accident of Robert Foster, only two starters, Dominick Jackson and Minkah Fitzpatrick, missed any games due to injury throughout the entire season. That's absolutely incredible.
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