Cool.
Dr. Jeni McNeal is researching sport applications of thermal imaging technology. AKA thermography.
… An exercise science professor at Eastern Washington University, McNeal is working on new ways to detect injuries in athletes, and to help them recover from the rigorous training …
… in research she chronicled in a new paper this year, McNeal and a colleague from the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs used thermal imaging to see weak spots that naked eyes and X-rays could never detect.
“It’s something that’s been used in trying to early-detect breast cancer,” McNeal says. …
… Of course, there’s still more work to be done. So far, McNeal’s work has been mostly qualitative. What she needs now, she says, are quantitative surveys of injuries — showing, say, what a sprained ankle looks like in the thermal camera on Day One, Day Two, Day Three — so that they can better track and diagnose injuries as they happen. …
read more – We Can See Injuries Before They Happen
Jeni, from Artistic Gymnastics, works with the American National Diving Team. Amongst others.
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