NORMAN, Okla. (KFOR) – World-class athletes utilize some of the best technology in the world while training for the Olympics, but what if that same technology was available right here in the heart of the city? Well, at the NMotion Sports and Human Performance Center, it is.
The pool at Norman’s Young Family Athletic Center may not be an Olympic stadium or a training facility, but the camera angles that allow swimmers to watch in and out of the water are the same technology used at both facilities.
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“That way we can get a really accurate 360-degree view of the swimmer,” says NMotion’s Dr Amanda Sadler.
Sadler is a Functional Sports Medicine Physician at NMotion. She has been swimming since she was 3 years old. She is also an Ironman Triathlon world record holder and has competed at the Olympic Trials. Now she runs NMotion and wants to introduce the same type of technology used by collegiate and professional athletes at the Olympic Trials to the general public.
“This is something I’m very passionate about,” she said.
The cameras used in the pool are called Sideline Scouts and are used for stroke analysis.
“You can say, ‘Hey, look at this, this is exactly what you’re doing,’ and they can learn from it and correct it,” she said.
There are also options available for recovery, and I have personally tried an option called Normatec, which is a compression therapy that supposedly helps reduce pain, swelling, and inflammation caused by an air cast.
“It pumps the blood back to the heart where it gets re-oxygenated and detoxified in all the body tissues it passes through,” she said.
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Sadler said these options, and others like cold baths and sweat analysis, make the difference for world-class athletes.
“Once you start doing all the little tiny little things, it makes a big difference,” she said. “That’s when you start seeing the magical results, so to speak.”
Sadler said the center currently serves about 1,000 patients. More information is available at nmotionok.com/home.
The Olympics are scheduled to begin in late July.
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