Posted on 02/06/2016 7:52:57 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
As a pediatric neurosurgeon at the Seattle Childrenâs Hospital, Sam Browd brought a swift end to the early athletic careers of innumerable youths across a myriad of sports due to concussions. Browdâs experience prematurely âretiringâ children from athleticsâmost notably footballâand the countless emotional conversations with parents made him question what could be done to address head injuries suffered by children while playing sports.
In 2013, Browd, an associate professor of neurological surgery at the University of Washington, connected with Dave Marver and Per Reinhallâboth of whom also had ties to the Seattle-based university and backgrounds in medical technology and mechanical engineering, respectivelyâabout the systemic problem of concussions among athletes. Within a matter of weeks, Browd, Marver and Reinhall founded VICIS. Latin for âchange,â the name VICIS fit the trioâs ambition: to reimagine the football helmet and reduce concussions in the sport.
After two years of development and just shy of $10 million in funding, VICIS launched its Zero1 helmet last month in collaboration with the University of Washington. Whether the helmet will effectively address the concussion quandary remains to be seen, but for VICISâ creditâthe helmet is unlike any other on the market.
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I doubt it.
I hope the tests play out and show improvements.
I would love to see American ingenuity solve an American issue.
Football is our sport.
Hopefully the new helmet would decrease the severity of head to head collisions like this one.
Yes! Because we want mentally-retarded former NFL players. Because soccer.
Check out #25, above.
What is an athletic exposure? And whatever they are, girl’s softball has more than boy’s baseball?
Freegards
English not your native language, or just a millennial?
Just making fun of you, FRiend.
Soccer, the sport invented for people paralyzed from the waist up.
Take the helmets away and you’ll see fewer collisions like that.
Yep.
Go back to leather helmets without face masks, and players will stop using their headgear as a weapon
If it performs in reality as it does on paper, it would have a much bigger effect on those hits. By being squishy on the outside, it would also make the helmet a much less effective weapon.
I think the Powers That Be want America to move to soccer. They want American football dead, one way or another.
what they really want to do is eliminate games that girls can’t play in some form or other...this is what will eventually kill football at the high school level...
True but what's wrong with lingerie football?
..this is what will eventually kill football at the high school level...
Not enough have been brainwashed into thinking soccer is fun to watch. Until then, football pays the bills.
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