Shock-Absorbing Helmets Save Athletes’ Brains

Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy or CTE is a threat to brain power and even longevity of not only professional football players but also those at the college and high school levels. Stanford University bioengineers, in collaboration with a local company appropriately named Savior Brain Inc,. have developed football helmets that incorporate 21 liquid shock absorbers. When tested with the type of simulations used by the NFL to evaluate helmet safety, these novel helmets offer a overall 33% reduction of impact harm and up to a 50% reduction of harmful impact in those zones that produce significant brain injury. These helmets are not available yet, but they promise to make American football safer……someday soon.

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fbioe.2023.1160387/full
https://saviorbrain.com/

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