{"id":1407,"date":"2020-09-11T13:42:28","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T13:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/utccismcc.utk.edu\/?p=1407"},"modified":"2020-09-11T13:42:28","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T13:42:28","slug":"professional-sports-wearable-health-devices-and-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cci.utk.edu\/ric\/2020\/09\/11\/professional-sports-wearable-health-devices-and-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Professional Sports, Wearable Health Devices, and COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By: Jess Barfield<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Can UTK students stay healthy in the age of COVID-19 based on practices in professional sports? The answer may be \u201cyes\u201d and if so, UTK students should take note. In a time when many people have become less active due to social distancing and staying indoors, some people have become concerned that they are not active enough. In response, a recent trend is increased interest and use of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2020\/09\/04\/low-cost-fitness-bands-see-a-resurgence-in-interest-amid-the-pandemic\/amp\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">wearable health devices<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> due to the COVID-19 pandemic.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But how do practices in professional sports fit in to a UTK student\u2019s response to COVID-19? Consider this example: after playing the first round of a recent PGA tournament, a pro golfer woke up feeling fine. But when he checked the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gq.com\/story\/the-best-fitness-watches-for-men\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">fitness tracker<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> he wears on his wrist, he noticed an increase in his breathing rate when he had been sleeping. Since a change in breathing rate could be a sign of COVID-19, he decided to get <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gq.com\/story\/fitness-trackers-coronavirus\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">tested for COVID-19 and the test came back positive<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Soon after the positive test result, the PGA tour <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.golfdigest.com\/story\/pga-tour-players-covid-19-whoop\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">announced<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> it would be distributing WHOOP bands to all players and caddies. Before the announcement, the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gq.com\/story\/oura-ring-nba\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">NBA\u2019s indicated <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">that it would be purchasing Oura Rings, another fitness tracker, to help NBA players in early detection of COVID-19. If professional athletes are using wearable fitness devices to stay healthy, why not college students and the general public?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1409\" src=\"https:\/\/utccismcc.utk.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2020\/09\/Fitness-Devices-1-1-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1408\" src=\"https:\/\/utccismcc.utk.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2020\/09\/Fitness-Devices_COVID-1-1-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To encourage the usage of wearable health devices, we need to access current conversations about fitness devices in the backdrop of the corona virus. This is where the tools provided by the Adam Brown Social Media Command Center come into play.\u00a0 Using the Command Center\u2019s tools, I generated a word <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">cloud to get a sense of the conversation concerning fitness devices and COVID-19 and in another search just using the words \u201cwearable fitness device\u201d alone. When looking at the word cloud for fitness devices alone, we see that COVID-19 is not currently prominent in the conversation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But this may change as more people become aware of how professional athletes are using wearable devices for early detection of the corona virus. 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