Wearable technology has become a core element in the injury prevention and post injury rehabilitation process for many professional sports teams. This information is also essential in the injury prevention and post injury rehabilitation and return to work process following workplace injury.

Over the past five years Scott Coleman and Preventure have been collaborating with various employers across different industries to create a cost-effective and sustainable wearable technology tool that enables the measurement of the physical demands of individual work tasks and the capacity of workers to perform these tasks throughout their shift.

This session will involve a review of the use of wearable technology for movement analysis, an overview of the data analysis and reporting process and various case studies involving the use of wearable technology to prevent injuries and return injured workers back to full workload