A new wearable monitoring technology is ready to detect and prevent head injuries. Sports concussions have become national news in recent years. Now, the Albuquerque, N.M.-based Pressure Analysis Company is making waves with its SmackCap head monitoring technology. The relatively new wearable tech helps detect and prevent head injuries. Monitoring is an essential step in preventing and curbing long-term brain trauma. Technology […]
Concussions are a continued hot topic for the game of football. From 2013 to 2015 NCAA football teams reported four per team, about one per season, but this doesn’t count the unreported ones or more minor head impacts that can accumulate and be just as dangerous. Vicis, a company based in Seattle, is attempting to combat […]
The concussion issues in sports have been a huge topic for years, especially in the NFL. A new study published by FAIR Health suggests that the issues have continued to become a huge concern across a range of youth sports in the United States for boys and girls. FAIR Health’s study concluded that concussion diagnoses for people under […]
Safety in football has taken on unprecedented levels of scrutiny in recent times, and for good reason. Impacts of repeated blows to the head have proven to be extremely detrimental to a player’s long-term health and it has caused the NFL to re-evaluate its rules and many companies to try and develop more advanced football […]
As if there hasn’t been enough research that equates playing football to degenerative brain diseases, a study by Dr. Francis Conidi at the Florida Center for Headache and Sports Neurology has added more fuel to the fire. The lead researcher on the study, Conidi scanned the brains of 40 ex-NFL players—they were all relatively fresh […]
