Abbott @ CES: An Athlete’s Most-Crucial Equipment: Freestyle Libre

The fundamentals of your standard-issue football uniform include a helmet, shoulder pads, hip and thigh pads and the right shoes for the surface: grass or turf.

For a kicker, they better be especially good shoes.

But for Elliott Fry, place-kicker for the Carolina Panthers, it’s all that plus one more must-have piece of equipment: His FreeStyle Libre 14 day system.

As an active kid growing up with diabetes and the requisite demands for checking his blood glucose via old-world fingerstick monitoring, it was “really challenging,” Fry said. “Going into any game — or whatever I was doing — and always having poke my finger and check my blood sugar and take shots. It’s just really hard as a young kid.”

But now Fry is adult, one of the few kids who grow up to be NFL players.

He’s elite.

So is his glucose monitoring with the FreeStyle Libre 14 day system, which eliminates the need for routine, painful fingersticks.*

“Back in college, I always having to check my blood sugar, prick my finger probably 20 times during a game and before a game just to make sure everything is in control,” Fry said from the floor of CES 2020 Health & Wellness Marketplace. “The difference now is that I have everything on my phone.** I know where my glucose levels are trending and where they’re at all times. So it gives me complete peace of mind knowing everything’s in control.”

*Fingersticks are required for treatment decisions when you see Check Blood Glucose symbol, when symptoms do not match system readings, when you suspect readings may be inaccurate, or when you experience symptoms that may be due to high or low blood glucose.

**FSLL Compatibility Disclaimer: The FreeStyle LibreLink app is compatible with NFC-enabled smartphones running Android OS 5.0 or higher and iPhone 7 or later running iOS 11 or later. Use of the FreeStyle LibreLink app requires registration with LibreView, a service provided by Abbott and Newyu, Inc.

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