I can't find it, but there was an interesting article on some IT type "toy" Eagles trainers use to monitor players. I'm not sure if they "shoot them" or wave a wand over them but it'll give a heat pattern, heart rate and some other things.
They can bench a player, send him to lockerroom if he is truly overheated before heat exhaustion kicks in.
The thing that made me hmmmm was that an injured area is often hotter than the rest of the body. So theoretically if someone has a tight hot hammy, he is close to injury. They could tell him to cool off, then stretch with a trainer etc.
This is hard to practice. Can't exactly keep interrupting practice to scan people and/or be all over the field.
It's unclear how fast an injured area goes from hot to injury. All this heat and injury stuff seems theoretical with lots of research to show they're on the right track but yet nothing definitive yet.
I liked an idea suggested to setup an XRay type walk through scanner they all walk through as they leave the field between plays
Regardless this sounds like the start of some pretty cool technology. and I thought it was interesting that techie Chip gets this when the team signs an expensive injury prone QB
Is it definitive that areas of the body that are about to get injured get hotter leading up to injury? It seems to me that an already-injured area would be hot due to swelling, etc. That doesn't mean it gets hot before the injury.
It seemed more like a theory that had a lot of confirming data yet still wasn't 100%
I wish I read medical sites. I thought it was so easy to find in my web history. There was a pic of a muscle and a part of the muscle was red while the rest was orange.
I believe they called this a point of distress.
Admittedly, I didn't understand the head diagrams and/or the explanation of it. The enlarged one discussing heat as a whole was easy to understand but when they zoomed in, I was lost.
In the video the guy's arm is orange and when he "makes a muscle" with his bicep, that turns red, then in a bit, it's all orange again.
Following along with this, if there was a spot on the bicep still red while the rest evened out to orange, that would be a distress point.
A trainer would give this guy's bicep some attention, probably RICE and then they'd check it the next day
While they are using it on the field, the diagnostic description was all about in a doc's office
ETA the point seems to be to recognize before a tear