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Could This Helmet Save Football From The Sport's Concussion Problem?
Forbes ^ | February 4, 2016 | Abigail Tracy

Posted on 02/06/2016 7:52:57 PM PST by MinorityRepublican

As a pediatric neurosurgeon at the Seattle Children’s Hospital, Sam Browd brought a swift end to the early athletic careers of innumerable youths across a myriad of sports due to concussions. Browd’s experience prematurely “retiring” children from athletics—most notably football—and 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 Reinhall—both of whom also had ties to the Seattle-based university and backgrounds in medical technology and mechanical engineering, respectively–about the systemic problem of concussions among athletes. Within a matter of weeks, Browd, Marver and Reinhall founded VICIS. Latin for “change,” the name VICIS fit the trio’s 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 VICIS’ credit—the helmet is unlike any other on the market.

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TOPICS: Sports
KEYWORDS: athletes; football; nfl
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To: SunLakesJeff

I doubt it.


21 posted on 02/06/2016 8:19:17 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: MinorityRepublican

I hope the tests play out and show improvements.

I would love to see American ingenuity solve an American issue.

Football is our sport.


22 posted on 02/06/2016 8:27:33 PM PST by BlueNgold (May I suggest a very nice 1788 Article V with your supper...)
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To: bigtoona

23 posted on 02/06/2016 8:28:39 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: BlueNgold

Hopefully the new helmet would decrease the severity of head to head collisions like this one.

24 posted on 02/06/2016 8:31:29 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: ClearCase_guy
Part of the homosexualization of society, and soccer is a rather homo sport.

homo soccer referee

25 posted on 02/06/2016 8:34:28 PM PST by doorgunner69
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To: doorgunner69

Yes! Because we want mentally-retarded former NFL players. Because soccer.


26 posted on 02/06/2016 8:42:14 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: SunLakesJeff

Check out #25, above.


27 posted on 02/06/2016 8:43:44 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: MinorityRepublican

What is an athletic exposure? And whatever they are, girl’s softball has more than boy’s baseball?

Freegards


28 posted on 02/06/2016 8:46:52 PM PST by Ransomed
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To: 1rudeboy
Because soccer.

English not your native language, or just a millennial?

29 posted on 02/06/2016 8:48:21 PM PST by doorgunner69
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To: doorgunner69

Just making fun of you, FRiend.


30 posted on 02/06/2016 8:49:02 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: central_va

Soccer, the sport invented for people paralyzed from the waist up.


31 posted on 02/06/2016 8:57:26 PM PST by T-Bone Texan (The economic collapse is imminent. Buy staple food and OTC meds now, before prices skyrocket.)
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To: MinorityRepublican


32 posted on 02/06/2016 9:22:15 PM PST by Organic Panic
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33 posted on 02/06/2016 9:22:49 PM PST by Organic Panic
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To: MinorityRepublican

34 posted on 02/06/2016 9:23:11 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: MinorityRepublican

Take the helmets away and you’ll see fewer collisions like that.


35 posted on 02/06/2016 9:41:07 PM PST by al_c (Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
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To: ClearCase_guy
I think the Powers That Be want America to move to soccer. They want American football dead, one way or another.

Yep.

36 posted on 02/06/2016 9:54:09 PM PST by fso301
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To: MinorityRepublican

Go back to leather helmets without face masks, and players will stop using their headgear as a weapon


37 posted on 02/06/2016 11:32:45 PM PST by Figment
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To: MinorityRepublican

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.


38 posted on 02/07/2016 8:19:23 AM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: fso301

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...


39 posted on 02/07/2016 8:04:34 PM PST by IrishBrigade
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what they really want to do is eliminate games that girls can’t play in some form or other.

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.

40 posted on 02/07/2016 8:41:48 PM PST by fso301
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