https://www.hss.edu/playbook/new-equipment-recovery-help-team-usa-athletes-train/
This news article is about how The Rio 2016 Olympics athletes have a unique backstory on how the support of family, coaches, and their physical therapists have allowed them to have gained athletic success. The new advances of equipment for the use of training has played a major role for the athletes competing in the summer’s Olympic games. For example, wearable technology and applications for portable devices aka phones and tablets. These devices help provide helpful feedback to maximize each training session. Also using 3D camera technology, enhances and measures the athletes weight room sessions to capture power output for every repetition. Recovery strategies such as cold immersion baths are still used by athletes. However, with the increase of technology advancements athletes have found a way to use recovery strategies to increase the volume of oxygen in the blood.
This article helps with my thesis, which is how can modern technology and equipment help physical therapists help athletes to recover faster? The mentioning of the Olympics, and how athletes train for that has broadened my thinking on what could be used to help regular athletes for their sports. The different recovery strategies like cold immersion baths and the hyperbaric oxygen therapy are good strategies that should be implemented and can be advanced with the upcoming technology and equipment. Also the mention of the different advancements in technology like the wearable tech to help athletes with their training and feedback.
I like that you chose this article as you mentioned it’s broadened your thoughts on how or where you could take this paper. However, following your thesis, which talks about using modern physical therapy tools to help athletes recover, do you plan to rework it in order to include the part of this paper that talks about modern tools athletes have used for training, or could you work it in under using these modern tools allows for less injuries?
I found your topic to be very insightful. I especially found it interesting that there are devices that can increase oxygen volume in the blood of athletes. Moving forward with your research, are you planning on comparing and contrasting current technological advancements to the advancements that we had in the past?
I found the new technology mentioned in your article was very interesting. There are many benefits of implementing technology into physical therapy that could make a drastically impact for athletes . However, I wonder what the downsides of this technology would be. I think it would be interesting to consider both the benefits and the downsides in your essay. Providing a counterclaim might help to build up your argument. I really enjoyed your blog post, great job!