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Athlete Innovator!

BrainTap Business Journal

English - January 28, 2021 22:11 - 27 minutes - 61.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
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In this week's BrainTap Business Journal Podcast Dr. Porter sits down with award-winning CEO, Chris Newton of SportGait. Chris is a highly experienced CEO focused on leading companies to multimillion-dollar revenues. He leads SportGait in all corporate and product strategy, operations, compliance, and sales and marketing. Chris has a bachelor's degree in marine engineering from the US Merchant Academy and a Master's degree in Management Studies from North Carolina State. He's a husband and father of two young athletes.

Join Dr. Porter and Chris as they discuss Chris's latest brain-child--SportGait. The goal of SportGait is to become the premier innovator for the evaluation, monitoring, management, and treatment of young athletes and others with concussions through a flexible and scalable platform. Founded on the philosophy of, "If you can't measure it, you can't improve it," SportGait created their platform using valid, reliable, proven professional and medical-grade instruments to help doctors provide critical care for concussed patients.
What You'll Learn:
-The importance of baseline measurements to demonstrate the efficacy of therapies
-Conditions mild traumatic brain injury leads to
-The importance of measuring cognitive effects and behavioral effects of concussion
-The importance of educating parents, coaches, and trainers on concussion protocols
-How SportGait can help keep athlete brains healthy
Links:
http://sportgait.com/