Mouthpiece Could Ease Stress, Hasten Recovery in Athletes. Athletes often wear a mouthpiece to prevent breaking their teeth or biting their tongues.
They might also want to wear one to reduce stress, hasten recovery and improve performance. Researchers at two universities in South Carolina have discovered the custom-fit ArmourBite mouthpiece manufactured by Bite Tech can decrease the level of cortisol in the bloodstream after strenuous exercise. The reduction indicates the body is experiencing less stress after a workout and may recover faster. The researchers don’t know why the mouthpiece does this, but they think it has something to do with the shape. Analytics Reveal 13 New Basketball Positions. For as long as basketball has been played, it’s been played with five positions.
Today they are point guard, shooting guard, small forward, power forward and center. A California data geek sees 13 more hidden among them, with the power to help even the Charlotte Bobcats improve their lineup and win more games. Muthu Alagappan is a Stanford University senior, a basketball fan and an intern at Ayasdi, a data visualization company. Ayasdi takes huge amounts of info like tumor samples and displays it in interactive shapes that highlight patterns like genetic markers that indicate a likelihood of ovarian cancer. It’s called topological data analysis, and it can be applied to sports, too. Football Statistics, Football Analysis.