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Buckeyes are under the microscope
Jason Lloyd Journal Register News Service
06/17/2008




OSU medical center study aimed at preventing inuries


COLUMBUS - For over a year now, every move Terrelle Pryor makes has been scrutinized and dissected. On this day, though, it actually means something.
Pryor and the rest of the Ohio State freshmen class are taking part in an innovative study at the Biomechanics Research laboratory at the Ohio State University Medical Center. The mission is simple: injury prevention.
"We always try to do the best we can to prevent injuries and find ways to improve performance," said Doug Calland, Ohio State's head athletic trainer. "This is a way to broaden the scope a little bit with some of the technology we have ... If we can figure out where the next ACL (injury) or the next shoulder injury is going to be, maybe we can do something to prevent it. And that's impressive."
How they go about it is a complicated task involving sensors and motion-capturing software similar to how video games are made. Players take turns getting measured and weighed, then must strip down to their shorts while researchers tape sensors to their waist, hips, knees and ankles.
The players take part in a series of low-energy exercises that include squats and lunges, balancing on one foot and jumping off a box. All of the movements are tracked on a computer screen as the sensors measure the torque, force and impact of the movements.
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I can see where this study could be helpful in improving performance but I'm lost when it comes to how it could help prevent injuries.
Guess I'd like to know more about it.
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Strengthening joints and/or muscles that are considered "weaker" could easily help prevent injury.
 
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This is cool stuff.
I actually did the exact same thing a few months ago, because I had a stress fracture in my right shin and they thought it was because I might be running funny.

What they do is they just have you run on a treadmill (for football players, they probably have them do other stuff too... I'm a runner so they only had me running, they might have them actually doing more football-like stuff, I don't know) with all these sensors attached to your body.. Then they can map out the way you run and see if you put too much pressure on certain joints, bones, etc, etc. With me, it was clear that my stride put too much pressure on my right shin, because of all sorts of fancy technical stuff that I still don't understand.

The point is, they helped me, a decent high school cross country runner, quite a bit. What they can do to football players at The Ohio State University... Well, they just might have a little more money going into them :biggrin: and they should be able to help them out a lot.
 
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I would bet my OSU degree that this kind of technology could have saved Keith Byars' senior season.

As many of you remember, he broke his 5th metatarsal and was lost for most of the season. But how many of you remember that he broke the same bone in his other foot as a pro?

The 5th metatarsal is the outside bone of the foot. With Keith's size, and the way that he cut; I bet that this technology would have easily determined that he was putting enough stress on that bone to eventually compromise its structural integrity.


ADD Moment: We'll look back on this in 3 years and laugh at how lanky Terrelle looks compared to the way he'll look then.
 
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Buckeyes embrace the latest technology
Database of information can help identify those at higher risk of injury
Sunday, June 22, 2008
By Ken Gordon
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

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NEAL C. LAURON | Dispatch
In order to monitor his movements, reflectors were stuck to Terrelle Pryor's lower body.

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NEAL C. LAURON | Dispatch
Ohio State has started a database on Terrelle Pryor that might help him avoid injury.

On February 28, 2007, Florida quarterback/golden boy Tim Tebow was taken to the school's Biomechanics and Motion-Analysis Laboratory.

The Gators were coming off a national championship. Tebow was poised to take over as the starter in the fall, but his throwing arm was chronically sore, and nobody could figure out why.

In the lab, 22 reflectors were stuck to Tebow's body. He fired footballs into a screen while cameras and lasers monitored not only his throwing motion but also the stresses and strains it put on the elbow and shoulder joint. A plate in the floor measured how much force he put on his legs as he planted.

After computers spit out the data, it was determined that Tebow's three-quarters motion was putting undue stress on his shoulder and elbow.

Offensive coordinator Dan Mullen showed Tebow the results.

"You can critique everything so much better than if you were just watching film," Tebow told theTampa Tribune.

With Mullen's help, Tebow tweaked his mechanics, shortening his stride and improving his balance. He learned to throw more over the top.

And then all he did was win the Heisman Trophy last fall, the first sophomore to do so.

On June 14, 2008, Ohio State quarterback/golden boy Terrelle Pryor was taken to the school's Sports Biomechanics Lab.
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BuckeyeXtra - The Columbus Dispatch : Buckeyes embrace the latest technology
 
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That's some pretty cool stuff. And Pryor looked pretty funny in those shorts or whatever they were. Not to mention him almost falling a few times doing lunges like mentioned above. Hopefully this will provide useful info for the players and it can help them in the long run
 
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