This four-part series examines the NFL’s $60 million investment in the Engineering Roadmap to develop research and technology to make football safer. This part discusses the data behind the controversial...
A new device made by Blinktbi is hoping to use an athlete’s blink reflex to search for impairments that might indicate brain trauma or a possible concussion. The Blinktbi device...
When a college quarterback wearing Riddell’s smart helmet is slammed unusually hard in the head, a coach on the sideline gets an immediate warning. Now, Riddell is upgrading that system to help coaches analyze head-injury trends so they can make smarter decisions about their players and reduce the chance of injury. Riddell introduced the InSite […]
The 2017 NFL season saw a “statistically significant” increase in the proportion of head injuries caused by helmet-to-helmet collisions. Richard Kent, an engineer who consults to the NFL Health and Safety Committee, shared that preliminary finding from the NFL’s forensic concussion research. Kent, the deputy director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Applied Biomechanics, shared those early […]
With concussions and other head injuries ever on the minds of athletes, coaches and fans, a new device called the Concussionometer, developed by Australian company HeadSafeIP, could ease their worries by providing objective concussion assessments right on the sideline. The headset looks like a sleep mask, but instead it shines a light into the wearer’s […]
