00:00Naomi McGregor wants to spare others what she went through as a teenager.
00:04She started ballet at age four.
00:07Ten years later she injured her knee while dancing.
00:12I was told after three years I need a specialist that I should never dance again and my injury
00:17was completely preventable.
00:19A traumatic experience that inspired innovation.
00:21A wearable that measures biomechanical metrics in real time.
00:26Users can follow their movements and performance on the field.
00:29The development began in a garage during the Covid pandemic.
00:36Over the past three years we have been able to design, iterate and launch MoveTrue across Europe.
00:42The MoveTrue wearable sends its data to an app.
00:46The technology is meant to help many high-impact sports such as ice hockey.
00:51CTO Dylan McBurney is responsible for MoveTrue's technical evolution.
00:59You can see here this is the Belfast Giants with the athletes skating on the surface.
01:04And the cool thing is we can zoom in to all of the data points.
01:08So this is captured in real time and we can see all of these data points by flicking through them.
01:17The app analyzes movement data and assigns scores automatically.
01:22An AI tool creates individual training plans tailored to the athlete's strengths and weaknesses.
01:28The goal is to optimize performance and lower the risk of injury.
01:33At the point of initially kicking off MoveTrue, AI was not a term that was being used across the industry.
01:39Now with the explosion of AI, it has allowed us to advance our product dramatically.
01:45But what do the users think?
01:47Rugby player Jake Flannery is pleased.
01:49Sometimes when you get injuries as an athlete, it's not totally clear what the issue is or what the deficiencies are when you're returning from play.
01:57So having that clear objective measurements that you can chase and improve on makes a very clear path to return to play.
02:04Naomi believes AI in sport has its limitations, especially for female athletes.
02:09There isn't enough data to train the systems effectively.
02:13Women are up to eight times more likely to suffer an ACL rupture and with this, when we're considering AI, we need to ensure that female anatomy, hormonal health and the differences of their biomechanical performance is factored into the decision making.
02:30MoveTrue won't always prevent disaster, but there's evidence that using one mitigates the risk of injury.
02:37In the future, Naomi and her team plan to improve data collection to better understand how injuries can happen.
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