Inspiration

The rash of Tommy John surgeries in children is disturbing. There is also an ever-increasing amount of Tommy John surgeries in amateur and pro baseball pitchers. It is an epidemic that threatens the health and future earning prospects of youth, amateur and professional baseball pitchers.

What it does

It detects the shoulder and elbow joints using tensorflow.js pose detection, a machine learning algorithm that runs in the browser

How we built it

Wrote it using JavaScript and converted it to TypeScript using js2ts.com

Challenges we ran into

CORS issues due to the need to upload photos, fortunately was able to use Express.js to imitate how photos could be served to the model

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Discovering the link between extended shoulder abduction and future injury, which will help baseball pitchers develop alternative pitching techniques to avoid future injury

What we learned

Machine learning in the browser can help sports analytics grow

What's next for ARM Preservation

Developing a mobile app and demoing to pro baseball teams

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