Wearable Performance Devices in Sports Medicine
Tóm tắt
Wearable performance devices and sensors are becoming more readily available to the general population and athletic teams. Advances in technology have allowed individual endurance athletes, sports teams, and physicians to monitor functional movements, workloads, and biometric markers to maximize performance and minimize injury. Movement sensors include pedometers, accelerometers/gyroscopes, and global positioning satellite (GPS) devices. Physiologic sensors include heart rate monitors, sleep monitors, temperature sensors, and integrated sensors. The purpose of this review is to familiarize health care professionals and team physicians with the various available types of wearable sensors, discuss their current utilization, and present future applications in sports medicine.
Data were obtained from peer-reviewed literature through a search of the PubMed database. Included studies searched development, outcomes, and validation of wearable performance devices such as GPS, accelerometers, and physiologic monitors in sports.
Clinical review.
Level 4.
Wearable sensors provide a method of monitoring real-time physiologic and movement parameters during training and competitive sports. These parameters can be used to detect position-specific patterns in movement, design more efficient sports-specific training programs for performance optimization, and screen for potential causes of injury. More recent advances in movement sensors have improved accuracy in detecting high-acceleration movements during competitive sports.
Wearable devices are valuable instruments for the improvement of sports performance. Evidence for use of these devices in professional sports is still limited. Future developments are needed to establish training protocols using data from wearable devices.
Từ khóa
Tài liệu tham khảo
El-Rabbany A, 2002, Introduction to GPS: The Global Positioning System
Johnstone JA, 2012, J Sports Sci Med, 11, 400
Lee JA, 2007, Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc, 2007, 483
Mathie MJ, 2001, Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc, 2001, 3654
Ohgi Y, 2005, Impact Technol Sport, 349
Sparling PB, 1993, Aviat Space Environ Med, 64, 760
Tudor-Locke C, 2002, President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports Research Digest, 3, 1