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APDM Wearable Technologies, one of the companies teaming up to improve atheletes' performance.
https://www.thestreet.com/story/13658046/1/olympics-offer-window-for-wearable-technology.html
A good performance enhancement option for Olympic athletes. And hopefully a good future for Parkinson's patients and other patients.
APDM Wearable Technologies, one of the companies teaming up to improve atheletes' performance.
One early pioneer, blending two of Portland’s banner industries— sports and technology — is APDM Wearable Technologies. The acronym stands for Ambulatory Parkinson’s Disease Monitoring. The company was launched in 2007 by Dr. James McNames, who was searching for a wearable movement sensor capable of logging high-bandwidth data for people who suffer from Parkinson’s disease. Today that technology has expanded into gait and balance analysis and into the world of high-performance sports. APDM even worked with the U.S. men’s gymnastics and diving teams ahead of the 2016 Olympics in Rio.
“We like to say we were in wearables before it was cool,” said general manager Matthew Johnson. “We differ from others on the market, like FitBit, in that we focus on the quality of movement. Coaches can treat athletes with interventions on how to improve their behavior” using APDM’s technology, he said.
https://www.thestreet.com/story/13658046/1/olympics-offer-window-for-wearable-technology.html
The U.S. Olympic Team contacted APDM three years ago to work on tracking athletes' movement with the company's wearable technology. APDM's technology is being used to track the quality of the movement of the U.S. Men's diving and gymnastics teams. The technology is not yet available to consumers as the systems are in development and cost tens of thousands of dollars.
A good performance enhancement option for Olympic athletes. And hopefully a good future for Parkinson's patients and other patients.
