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Northeastern U. Students Wire Pitchers’ Shirts to Help Prevent Sports Injuries

By admin | March 4, 2010

Northeastern U. Students Wire Pitchers’ Shirts to Help Prevent Sports Injuries

Three Northeastern University mechanical-engineering students have designed a data-gathering shirt that could reduce fatigue-related injuries among pitchers in baseball. For their senior project, Marcus Moche, Alexandra Morgan, and David Schmidt wired an Under Armour-brand shirt to graph the mechanics of a pitch. They tested their product on two pitchers from Northeastern’s club team. 

The students

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