Uniform Sensors Measure Impact of Blocks, Tackles

The San Franscisco 49ers are helping researchers learn more about the biomechanics of football injuries.

With the NFL season in full gear, the San Francisco 49ers are helping physicians and scientists at Stanford University Medical Center learn more about the biomechanics of football injuries. Daniel Garza, the team's medical director and an emergency and sports-medicine physician at Stanford Hospital & Clinics, is working with two research assistants to measure the impact of blocks and tackles using pressure sensors worn inside the uniforms of some 49ers players. "It's unprecedented for an NFL team to support research at this level," Garza says.

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