Nearly 3,000 health and fitness experts worldwide have voted wearable technology as the number one fitness trend of 2016. The trend list also includes high intensity interval training and yoga. The American College of Sports Medicine ...
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Performance Sports Group unveiled what it claimed to be to be a significant breakthrough in addressing mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) in sports. The potential breakthrough, a proprietary yet easy-to-use band worn on the neck, was ...
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Apparel and home textiles marketer Ralph Lauren is launching its innovative PoloTech smartshirt, which it called a seamless blend of sleek, modern style with real-time biometric technology. A Ralph Lauren press release informed that the ...
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MoGo Sport, the maker of flavored mouth guards, announced that Bobby Dodd has joined the company as President. In this role, Bobby will oversee all sales, marketing, trade marketing, product development, distribution and partnership ...
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Shock Doctor Sports and McDavid Inc. jointly announced that they have agreed to merge their companies. The combination will bring together two leading sports protection and performance companies with complementary product lines and a shared ...
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Maintaining a heel-toe pattern while running barefoot or in a minimalist shoe may lead to more frequent injuries. The study comes with the trend toward barefoot running in recent years, as well as the purchase and use of "minimalist" ...
Johnson & Johnson’s fourth-quarter medical device sales fell by 4.7%, to $6.6 billion, with the biggest drop (7.7%) in the U.S., the company announced this week. Total fourth-quarter sales were down 0.6% year-over-year, to $18.3 ...
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The American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) announced its annual fitness trend forecast based on survey responses from thousands of fitness professionals. Body weight training, high-intensity interval training, educated/experienced ...
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Smith & Nephew plc has figuratively yanked the job-security bandage off 108 employees at its St. Petersburg, FL, wound-care plant. The company plans to close the factory and lay the workers off by January 9, according to a report in the ...
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Ralph Lauren Corp. has unveiled the high-performance, fashion-forward Polo Tech shirt on opening day of the US Open. The Polo Tech shirt is an innovative new product from a fashion brand that merges biometrics into active lifestyle apparel, ...
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X2 Biosystems will supply its Integrated Concussion Evaluation (ICE) software system for use by select teams in the Elite Clubs National League (ECNL) during the 2014-2017 soccer seasons. Major League Soccer and the National Football League ...
Cramer Products, a leader in sports medicine and physical education products, announced the retirement of Thomas K. Rogge, president and chief executive officer, effective Sept. 30, 2014, and the appointment of Robert Mogolov to the ...
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The new Sanford Health Dickinson Clinic, which is replacing the existing Sanford Health Dickinson Clinic, is now open. The new clinic, located at 2615 Fairway St., is more than six times the size of the current clinic at 938 Second Ave. W. ...
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When an adolescent female patient comes to Nationwide Children's Hospital's Sports Medicine clinic, not only are these young women treated for their sports-related injury, but their sports medicine physician will also ask if they've missed ...
Anika Therapeutics (ANIK) has received marketing approval for MONOVISC from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of patients suffering from osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee. MONOVISC is a single injection supplement ...
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