What if a doctor could look at LeBron James’s legs and detect a weakened muscle that could make him more sensitive to an injury? Having this knowledge could allow James to strengthen the region, to avoid missing games and perhaps giving the future temple of the NBA renown a chance to play in the middle of the forties.
Imagine if the doctors of the Los Angeles Dodgers team had access to a more detailed image of the elbow of Shohei Ohtani before hurting him late in the 2023 season. Ohtani could he have won 20 games as a launcher in 2024 more From its historic season of 50 Homer and 50-Base?
The new Springbok technology, based in Charlottesville, brings these scenarios in the field of possibility. The professor of the engineering school of the University of Virginia, Silvia Blemker and the professor of the School of Medicine, Craig Meyer, as well as the former Kinesiology teacher at the UVA education school , Joe Hart, who is now vice-president of orthopedics for research at the University of North Carolina, founded the company.
For many years, the gold stallion to detect sports injuries was magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI, but Springbok changes the game with muscleview, a muscle health analysis based on the artificial intelligence of images of MRI who received American food and drugs in October.
“Our technology provides important information on asymmetries, imbalances and areas of weakness that are used by clinicians to adapt the training to meditate possible injury,” said Blemker. “Then, in terms of recovery of an injury, technology is used to help customize and target training for more efficient and efficient recovery and return to sport.”
Currently, the NBA, the NFL, the MLB and the Premier League players use the owner technology of Springbok, patented through UVA license and companies group.
Springbok technology also helps people with facioscapulo-human muscular dystrophy, making blemker, Meyer and Hart a slam-dunk for the innovative Edlich-Henderson Prize for UVA.
“Springbok is a brilliant example of what can happen when a group of extremely intelligent people from various departments through the field is putting in a room,” said Richard W. Chylla, executive director of UVA licenses and companies. “And the list of long -term applications for technology is infinite. It is not only for athletes. “”
Springbok transforms the MRIs into black and white into 3D coded in color which measure and compare the muscles to each other at an unavailable level of precision elsewhere.
CEO and co-founder Scott Magargee, director of Xue Feng technology, Savannah Benusa, Lara Riem, Matt Brown and several UVA alumni led the Springbok team.
Springbok breakthrough has occurred when Feng has developed an algorithm using artificial intelligence and automatic learning to reduce the treatment time of each MRI from around 50 hours to an hour.