High-tech helmet teaches about head injuries

High-tech helmet teaches about head injuries
The Associated Press
Posted : Saturday Nov 24, 2007 17:31:22 EST

LEBANON, N.H. — A high-tech helmet invented by a New Hampshire company is helping football teams and the military learn more about head injuries.

The helmet and sensors created by research-and-development company Simbex LLC measures and records the force of impacts to the head. The system already is being used by many football teams looking to detect and prevent injuries. The military also has ordered some of the systems.

The Head Impact Telemetry System, or HIT system, includes a helmet and data transmitter and a console and can monitor dozens of football players or soldiers simultaneously.

The company says the system detects, records and analyzes helmet impacts, sending a warning to a coach or military commander if any impact has a potential of causing a concussion or other brain injury.

But it also helps match what kind of hit a player took with a resulting injury, a key to prevention and treatment.

The technology has been used on football fields across the country since 2004, with more than 350,000 head impacts collected and analyzed from more than 500 college and high school athletes, the company said on its Web site.


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they wont even provide helmet liners to prevent the head injuries, they aren't go'n to actually record the injury and have to help an injured soldier they could otherwise just kick out on the street for free