Dr Phil Wagner (Founder & CEO of Sparta Science)

Episode 27: Andy McDonald chats with Dr Phil Wagner the Founder & CEO of Sparta Science. Phil is a a Physician and a Strength Coach who received his medical degree from USC focused on biomechanics. Phil’s passion for protecting athlete health and longevity through injury resilience coupled with his medically-oriented human performance mindset inspired him to found Sparta Science, a movement technology and data science company focused on improving musculoskeletal health. 

 

In this conversation Andy & Phil discuss:

 

• Phil’s from athlete to Strength & Conditioning Coach to medicine. 
• Setting up Sparta Science 
• Informed consumers
• Assessing methods & tools before Implementation
• Re-defining what “Injury prevention means” 
• How Sparta Interacts with team systems 
• AI & Machine learning in predictive injury models 
• Blind spots in data models
• Injury risk identification verses occurrence 
• The value of coaches & clinicians gaining foundation knowledge in data methods

 

Where you can find Phil:

• Twitter
• LinkedIn

 

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