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This is a special episode all about the Boston Marathon. The 129th Boston Marathon will take place on April 21, 2025 and...
04/21/2025

This is a special episode all about the Boston Marathon. The 129th Boston Marathon will take place on April 21, 2025 and holds a special place in the hearts of those in this episode. There are also 174 charities participating in the marathon. See below on how to show your support.
Our guest in this episode is Dr. Kristin Whitney, who is an Assistant Professor in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the Director of the Injured Runners Clinic at Boston Children’s Hospital. She is also the Boston Marathon Medical Tracking Program Team Captain. We talk about Kristin’s experiences and perspectives in these roles and how she has used her learnings and expertise to improve performance for others. She shares her story of a clinical care team that made a huge impact in her and her family’s life and how that fueled her passion to bring excellent clinical care to so many today. Kristin also shares a groundbreaking study with a team that is on the frontiers of performance research. We were inspired by this conversation and hope it inspires you too!
Thank you to our sponsors!
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Episode 68 is a very special episode with Jenn Heil, a Canadian freestyle skier, two time Olympic medalist and reigning ...
06/07/2023

Episode 68 is a very special episode with Jenn Heil, a Canadian freestyle skier, two time Olympic medalist and reigning world champion in dual moguls.

Jenn is a Guinness World Record Holder, Canadian Order of Sport Recipient, Stanford Graduate School of Business Leadership Award Winner, Founder of a startup focused on improving maternal mental health, and a mother of two boys herself.

We talk about Jenn’s experiences and perspectives from all of these roles and how she has used her learnings and expertise to improve performance for others.
Even at 8 years old she had an intensity for chasing challenges and fighting fear and is a clear example of what greatness can stand on the other side of fear.

Our conversation inspired us to “choose impossible” and “take joy in the process” and we hope it inspires you too.

Our Bit of BOOM features an article from 2019 in the Journal of Biomechanics “Automated Remote Fall Detection using Impa...
05/20/2023

Our Bit of BOOM features an article from 2019 in the Journal of Biomechanics “Automated Remote Fall Detection using Impact Features from Video and Audio.”

This study presented an automated analysis algorithm for remote detection of high impact falls, based on a physical model of a fall.

The algorithm used the maximum acceleration when a person starts to fall and deceleration when hitting the ground, and the maximum vertical velocity between these two faces. The sound amplitude, when a person hit the ground, was used to increase detector specificity.

They tested the performance of the algorithm using acted data from a public database and real life data with falls.

The results: The trained algorithm was able to act on the dataset resulted in 90% sensitivity for detection of falls, with 92% specificity. In the real life data, six/nine falls were detected with a specificity of 99.7%.

Learn more: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbiomech.2019.03.007
Automated remote fall detection using impact features from video and audio. Evelien E. Geertsema, et al Journal of Biomechanics 2019

Our Bit of BOOM features an article from 2019 in the Journal of Biomechanics “Automated Remote Fall Detection using Impa...
05/19/2023

Our Bit of BOOM features an article from 2019 in the Journal of Biomechanics
“Automated Remote Fall Detection using Impact Features from Video and Audio.”
This study presented an automated analysis algorithm for remote detection of high impact falls, based on a physical model of a fall.

The algorithm used the maximum acceleration when a person starts to fall and deceleration when hitting the ground, and the maximum vertical velocity between these two faces. The sound amplitude, when a person hit the ground, was used to increase detector specificity.

They tested the performance of the algorithm using acted data from a public database and real life data with falls.

The results: The trained algorithm was able to act on the dataset resulted in 90% sensitivity for detection of falls, with 92% specificity. In the real life data, six/nine falls were detected with a specificity of 99.7%.

Learn more: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbiomech.2019.03.007
Automated remote fall detection using impact features from video and audio. Evelien E. Geertsema, et al Journal of Biomechanics 2019

BOOM, together witih support from the Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance, just released a series on Human Performance. W...
05/17/2023

BOOM, together witih support from the Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance, just released a series on Human Performance.
We cover a variety of subjects with great people.
We talked about women’s health and wearables with Caroline Kryder, health equity and inclusion with NiCole Keith nicolekeith, and circadian rhythm research with Satchin Panda.

Listen to all three to learn how to optimize your own human performance with research-backed advice.

Get there through the highlights in our bio.

In this episode we had a fun conversation with Professor Deanna Gates from the University of Michigan.We talked about re...
05/04/2023

In this episode we had a fun conversation with Professor Deanna Gates from the University of Michigan.
We talked about rehabilitation biomechanics and her work on prostheses and orthotics.
She shared her experiences as a biomechanics consultant and rehabilitation work for the military, as well as her motivation for becoming a biomechanist (hint: in a galaxy far, far away...).
May the 4th be with you, BOOMers!
Listen here: https://shorturl.at/uEHY2

In this episode, we talked with Dr. .panda, a professor in the Regulatory Biology Laboratory and the Rita and Richard At...
05/03/2023

In this episode, we talked with Dr. .panda, a professor in the Regulatory Biology Laboratory and the Rita and Richard Atkinson Chair at the , as well as the Director of the Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance at Salk.

Dr. Panda is an expert researcher on circadian rhythms, even authoring a book on the topic called Circadian Code.

We discuss everything from why circadian rhythms are important for our health, what we know and don’t know about these rhythms from scientific studies, and how we can experiment with our own systems to optimize our own health and performance.

This is Part 3 of our series on human performance supported by the Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance!


Support science in Satchin's lab at Salk: https://panda.salk.edu/giving/
Watch here: https://youtu.be/HZL72dhfFMU

In this episode, we talked with Dr. Satchin Panda, a professor in the Regulatory Biology Laboratory and the Rita and Ric...
05/03/2023

In this episode, we talked with Dr. Satchin Panda, a professor in the Regulatory Biology Laboratory and the Rita and Richard Atkinson Chair at the , as well as the Director of the Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance at Salk. .

Dr. Panda is an expert researcher on circadian rhythms, even authoring a book on the topic called Circadian Code.

We discuss everything from why circadian rhythms are important for our health, what we know and don’t know about these rhythms from scientific studies, and how we can experiment with our own systems to optimize our own health and performance.

This is Part 3 of our series on human performance supported by the Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance!


Support science in Satchin's lab at Salk: https://panda.salk.edu/giving/

In this episode, we talked with Dr. Satchin Panda, a professor in the Regulatory Biology Laboratory and the Rita and Ric...
05/03/2023

In this episode, we talked with Dr. Satchin Panda, a professor in the Regulatory Biology Laboratory and the Rita and Richard Atkinson Chair at the , as well as the Director of the Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance at Salk.

Dr. Panda is an expert researcher on circadian rhythms, even authoring a book on the topic called Circadian Code. We discuss everything from why circadian rhythms are important for our health, what we know and don’t know about these rhythms from scientific studies, and how we can experiment with our own systems to optimize our own health and performance.
This is Part 3 of our series on human performance supported by the Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance!


Support science in Satchin's lab at Salk: https://panda.salk.edu/giving/

This quote by the famous Dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh reminds us all of the importance of simply making a start. Many t...
04/28/2023

This quote by the famous Dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh reminds us all of the importance of simply making a start.
Many tasks and challenges you may face in life can seem incredibly daunting or overwhelming.
However, the best way to tackle the issue is to simply make a start, and slowly progress bit by bit to achieving your ultimate goal!

Welcome to Part 2 of the Human Performance Series supported by the Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance! In this episode, ...
04/19/2023

Welcome to Part 2 of the Human Performance Series supported by the Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance!
In this episode, we talked with NiCole Keith who is a Professor at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis and the current president of American College Sports Medicine.
NiCole shared her research in health equity and physical activity and the importance of making physical activity accessible to everyone.
Connect with NiCole Keith!
Twitter:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicole-keith-2370083/

This month we episode 7. In this episode we interviewed two Professors from the Blast Impact and Survivability Resea...
04/14/2023

This month we episode 7.
In this episode we interviewed two Professors from the Blast Impact and Survivability Research Unit. Professor Reuben Govender and Professor Emeritus Gerald Nurick.
We discuss findings in running shoe advantages using statistics and large scale running data.
Learn the importance of adapting your research to local needs and about current research on blast impacts in Biomechanics.
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