my midterm for DESMA 9

1. DESMA 9
Art + Science + Technology
Spring 2016
Professor Victoria Vesna
Section 1E
Title:
[Warm-up Wrap]
Name: [Kyra Rogers]

2. ABSTRACT
[Warm-up Wrap is a product that tells the consumer
when their body is completely warmed up.Through this
wrap the user will have a physical cue for when their
body is properly warmed up and ready to move on to
the main exercise. The intent of the project is to make
sure athletes are completely warmed up before a
game, practice, or exercise to prevent injuries from
happening and to improve the athlete’s physical
performance.This technological advancement shows
the cooperation and balance between medicine/
prevention and science and how it benefits the athlete
in training. It may take away the physical contact and
communication with the trainer but the wrap is more
reliable for the athlete. The most important job for an
athlete is to take care of his/her body and with this
wrap it’s easier than ever. ]

3. CONCEPT / TOPIC
[I have played volleyball for eight years, at the junior level an collegiate level, but
a common theme of injuries always seems prevalent in sports. Warming up for
exercise is critical for anyone but most people only base their warm up level off of
a feeling rather than technical facts and numbers. I am specifically interested in
combining medical technology with art to help limit the amount of injuries in
sports. This is important to me because you are able to control how much you
warm up and for how long you warm up but athletes do not always take control
with this. Without a proper warm up people end up hurting themselves and
missing weeks that they could of been working out.
Athletes are also always looking to improve their athletic performance. By
warming up completely, your muscles and joints will be ready to perform each
exercise at maximum effort while at the same time minimizing the risk of injury.
According to USA Today, 1.35 million youths a year have major sport injuries that
take them out of competition, imagine how much that could decrease with the
increase of warming up]

4. CONTEXT & PRECEDENTS
[In 2009, Mark Kovacs, PhD, published the book “Dynamic Stretching:
The Revolutionary New Warm-up Method to Improve Power,
Performance and Range of Motion” to argue how vital dynamic
stretching can be to performance and injury prevention. It is not just
about stretching anymore, it is about how you stretch to prepare your
body for strenuous activity. There are two types of warm ups you can
do before exercise, static and dynamic. Although sometimes helpful
with soreness, static stretching has been recently criticized. Stretching
is an important part of the warm up but the whole warm up should not
consist of only stretching. It is important to warm up your muscles for
more strength and flexibility. Technologically speaking my project
would decrease the need for trainers because of how efficient and
accurate it is when it comes to warming up because of what it tells
you. And artistically speaking, my project allows people to bring a
fashionable and colorful device into sports that ultimately helps
athletes become even better athletes.

5. PROJECT PROPOSAL
[Warm- up Wrap is a thin light wrap that starts out the color blue and slowly turns into the
color red as you become more and more warm. The color gives you physical cues of how
much longer you need to warm up. The blue represents not warm and the red represents
completely warm and ready to move on to the next physically demanding exercise. With
the warm-up wrap, a book of dynamic and static exercises are included to give you
inspiration and examples for how to properly warm up.]

6. [When the athlete starts warming up the wrap will be activated. This means the wrap will
calculate blood pressure, core temperature, blood circulation and respiratory rate. The
core temperature is measured because it directly correlates with the temperature of ones
muscles. The warmer the muscles are, the more flexible and ready to compete they are.
According to John Hopkins Medical Center, accurate measurement of temperature is
very important because it can compromise a patients safety and impact a diagnostic.
Dilating your blood vessels during warm up is also extremely critical because it allows
oxygen into your muscles. Also, by slowly raising your heart rate and instead of going
from resting heart rate to maximum heart rate, it puts less stress on your body and heart.
With the collaboration of these four things in affect the athlete should know when he/ she
is completely warm through a feeling and through physical statistics]
Project Proposal (cont.)

7. [This product’s functionality and flexibility allows you to wear it every
day in any way. You can tie it around your head, wrap it around your
ankles or even around your knees. The possibilities are endless as long
as it is touching your body. It can also be worn under clothing if you do
not want people to see. ]
Project Proposal (cont.)

8. Conclusion
Richard Stein, M.D. from the department of medicine at New York University
argues “Warming up and cooling down are good for your exercise
performance — you’ll do better, faster, stronger — and for your heart since
the increased work on the heart ‘steps up’ with exercise,”. Everyone athlete or
even a religious gym rat can become the best athlete they can be with intense
and maximizing their strengths. But there is also the possibility that these
people can easily become injured due to improper form, technique, fatigue, or
from tight muscles. My goal with this project is not only to show why
combining medicine and science is useful to our society but to help a cause
that I believe in- reducing the risk of preventable injuries of athletes.
According to “Medtech” in Boston, many physicians don't agree with medical
technology because they believe it takes away from the art of medicine as
well as the patient doctor relationship but I am here to disagree. I believe
technological advances in medicine give patients more of an advantage to be
healthy.

9. References
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10. Bibliography / Links
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