Mobile app captures symptoms at higher rate than traditional sports medicine surveillance: 3 notes

A new mobile app captures symptoms related to sports injuries at a higher rate than traditional sports medicine surveillance, according to research presented at the American Public Health Association‘s 2016 Annual Meeting and Expo.

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Here’s what you should know.

 

1. Lead researcher Christine Baugh, MPH, and her team from Harvard Health sampled more than 100 college football and cross-country athletes in 2015. The researchers used the smartphone app to collect health data.

 

2. Researchers found that traditional injury surveillance wouldn’t capture 99 percent of symptoms the apps captured.

 

3. The data will be used to test whether stress, sleep or head impacts can influence an athletes’ symptoms

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