US Sports Teams Use High-Tech Treatments to Reduce Injuries

One of the biggest struggles for professional sports teams is finding ways to keep their players from getting injured. Major injuries can greatly affect a team’s overall success and profitability.

One team that has suffered many injuries in recent years is the Washington Redskins of the National Football League, or NFL. During the past two seasons, the Redskins lost more players to injury than any other NFL team.

Washington officials say they have learned that reacting to an injury after it happens is not good enough. They are now attempting to lower the risk of players getting injured in the first place.

With this goal in mind, the team’s trainers are now offering players treatments that use technology-based sports medicine.

Redskins head trainer Larry Hess showed off some of the high-tech equipment recently to a reporter who visited the team’s headquarters in Ashburn, Virginia. Hess says the treatments are aimed at strengthening the body as a whole.