Patent attributes
Systems and methods are provided for injury characterization including detecting matches of an individual subject's record (such as an athlete's record) with collections of other subjects records, based on serial, longitudinal patterns, for facilitating athlete health and training, preventive and rehabilitation medicine, and risk management in athletics. In an embodiment, time series are formed from information pertaining to successive longitudinal episodes of injury and the circumstances in which the injuries were incurred; calculating time-series K-nearest-neighbor clusters and distances for each such combination; determining the cluster to which a given candidate player injury record is nearest or belongs, and prescribing an injury-risk reduction intervention specific to the plurality of hazards that are characteristic of trajectories that are members of that cluster and that are deemed to be relevant to reducing or mitigating those hazards and thereby are efficacious in preventing subsequent injuries that are prevalent in that trajectory cluster.
