Wearable Sensors and Technology for Human Health Monitoring

Dear Colleagues,

The interest in measuring human performance through wearable technology has dramatically increased as the technology continues to advance. The driving force of this growing field is the ability to carry out individualized measurements across multidisciplinary performance areas and diverse populations of people that provide meaningful real-time feedback to optimize performance and monitor wellbeing. There is tremendous potential for this technology and many modes in which it can be applied to better inform clinical decision making and modulate training to prevent poor outcomes. One additional area of interest around wearable technology is in the early detection of injury, which is secondary to both musculoskeletal and systemic physiologic insults. The groups at highest risk for injury and those that may clinically benefit are athletes and military personnel. At present, current strategies to identify precursors and at-risk performance behavior for injury are limited to subjective assessments and crude examination tools. Wearable technology has promising utility in advancing this field as it can harness continuous data from multiple physiologic somatic systems and can incorporate additional cognitive and emotional inputs, all of which likely play a role in the complex and dynamic system that leads to injury.

Dr. Dhruv R. Seshadri
Dr. Ethan Robert Harlow
Guest Editors

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