Stanford researchers recently outfitted about two dozen Cardinal football players with high-tech mouthpieces to measure the number, force and direction of head impacts during games and practices. In the ABC Nightly News segment below, DAN GARZA, assistant professor of orthopaedic surgery at Stanford, discusses how researchers are using data from the mouthpieces, which are equipped with tiny sensors, to advance the medical understanding of concussions in football. Read the full post in the Stanford Medical School’s SCOPE blog.
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