[GoodGrief]

I noticed this from David Lombardi's twitter feed (that Extra Point referenced on Jordan Williamson's injury). Dr. Dan Garza was the 49'ers Team Physician and also worked with the Stanford football team. He developed mouthguards with accelerometers in them to measure the impact of big hits. Chris Owusu's mouthguard registered something really high during one of his concussion-inducing hits.

Dan was also a great guy. He was in my dorm when I was a freshman and always had a big grin on his face. Even as a sophomore, Dan was on the cutting edge and was experimenting with the early technology of Motion Capture. We snuck into the Stanford gymnastics gym, and he filmed me doing gymnastics with white marks on my body so he could later digitize the motions. Dan was also a goalie on the lacrosse team and would frequently suffer a dislocated shoulder. When Dan was an RA, he designated a meek freshman to be his Dislocated Shoulder Pop-Back-In-er. So Dan would sometimes come home from practice with his shoulder hanging loosely from its socket and call the freshman to his room, whereupon the freshman would reluctantly trudge down the hall and close Dan's door. Then a bloodcurdling scream would emanate from Dan's room, and then the freshman would walk out of Dan's room looking profoundly disturbed.

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2013/octob...01713.html

[GoodGrief]

I noticed this from David Lombardi's twitter feed (that Extra Point referenced on Jordan Williamson's injury). Dr. Dan Garza was the 49'ers Team Physician and also worked with the Stanford football team. He developed mouthguards with accelerometers in them to measure the impact of big hits. Chris Owusu's mouthguard registered something really high during one of his concussion-inducing hits.

Dan was also a great guy. He was in my dorm when I was a freshman and always had a big grin on his face. Even as a sophomore, Dan was on the cutting edge and was experimenting with the early technology of Motion Capture. We snuck into the Stanford gymnastics gym, and he filmed me doing gymnastics with white marks on my body so he could later digitize the motions. Dan was also a goalie on the lacrosse team and would frequently suffer a dislocated shoulder. When Dan was an RA, he designated a meek freshman to be his Dislocated Shoulder Pop-Back-In-er. So Dan would sometimes come home from practice with his shoulder hanging loosely from its socket and call the freshman to his room, whereupon the freshman would reluctantly trudge down the hall and close Dan's door. Then a bloodcurdling scream would emanate from Dan's room, and then the freshman would walk out of Dan's room looking profoundly disturbed.

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2013/octob...01713.html