
To develop the app, Athanasios Babouras, a McGill PhD graduate in experimental surgery and computer science, uploaded the types of knee movements that were warning signs. Then, over the space of several years, he and clinical research consultant Janet Faith filmed athletes from McGill and Concordia University every year as they arrived for pre-season training. The Hurtblocker used AI to analyze and learn from the movements of the 2,400 students who were filmed.

