Broken bones and torn ligaments are easy injuries to identify in student athletes, but some health conditions require further examination.

A company called Eko Health is now using AI technology to identify those conditions through FDA-approved digital stethoscopes.

These stethoscopes come with a software program that can detect symptoms of heart disease, like atrial fibrillation and heart murmurs.

Eko Health is teaming up with Our Lady of the Lake to provide LSU with these stethoscopes to treat its student athletes.

The software will be used during student athlete physical exams, and Eko Health Commercial Vice President Joseph Authement says it will hopefully help team doctors see what they maybe would not have seen before.

“So obviously you are dealing with the pinnacle of athletes here at LSU, the best of the best,” Authement said. “So for the large majority of these athletes, they’re going to be healthy. What this is really designed for is to find those anomalies, the needle in the haystack. The ones that otherwise wouldn’t be detected.”

“That’s where this tool will really shine.”

Hopefully for the Tigers, this new equipment will help ensure they’re 100 percent healthy ahead of the upcoming football season.