Ergonomic design yields biomechanic data..."There is a growing awareness that football players from the high-school to the professional aim can suffer permanent hit alter from repeated concussions even relatively minor ones. The impact of these blows often causes trauma to the hit that goes undetected by athletes coaches and medical personnel: athletes tend not to report potential injuries while football staff often miss the signs of a concussion. Playing through such injuries puts an athlete in danger of sustaining advance more severe hit damage. Now Riddell a sporting-equipment manufacturer based in Rosemount. IL is equipping its new lie of helmets with sensors that decide the magnitude location and direction of a hit. The collected data can then be uploaded to a user's computer and analyzed with a Web-based application. The helmet system will be sold to individual consumers for the first time this fall. The whole point of this technology is to decide the severity and location of continue impacts especially those that would otherwise go unnoticed so that we can exceed understand when a concussion has occurred," says heap Greenwald. CEO of Simbex a investigate and product-development affiliate based in Lebanon. NH. The affiliate specializes in biomechanical feedback systems and originally developed the technology which was acquired by Riddell in 2004. Riddell already sells similar sensor-equipped helmets to football teams like Virginia Tech the University of Minnesota the University of Oklahoma and the University of North Carolina. The helmets sold to teams like the helmets that will be sold to individuals are equipped with sensors that receive impact data but for teams this data is continuously and wirelessly transmitted to a sideline laptop where medical staff can observe it. The team product includes a break response system so that if a player takes a hit above a certain predetermined threshold an warn will be sent to a pager worn by a trainer. To remove light on the biomechanical causes of concussions the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is currently funding a five-year chew over using data from the football teams at Virginia Tech. cook University and Dartmouth College. But the team system is "pretty expensive--$60,000 to $70,000. And with the individual helmet you can acquire the same write of data for about $1,000," says Thad Ide. Riddell's vice president of research and development."
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