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Mass General Hospital: News Release Criteria used to diagnose sports head injuries found to be inconsistent, 10/12/2012, By Sue McGreevey |
NIH Record Can We Reduce Concussions? High-Tech System Monitors Head Impacts, 06/08/2012, By Dever Powell |
Simbex President, and Dartmouth Thayer School of Engineering Faculty member, Richard Greenwald lectured on "Biomenchanical Basis of Concussion: Monitoring Head Impact in Sports," as part of the NICHD Director's Lecture Series. |
Dartmouth Now: Dartmouth Researchers Investigate the Cognitive Effects of Athlete Head Impacts: |
Dartmouth faculty (Thomas McAllister and Richard Greenwald) and students played prominent roles in a recent study on the cognitive effects of head impacts among student athletes. Tested at the beginning and end of one season, 22 percent of those students who participated in contact sports scored significantly lower in memory and learning skills than expected, as opposed to only 4 percent of non-contact sport athletes.... |
Youth Football Study: Stone Phillips Reports - Hard Hits, Hard Numbers: |
In a groundbreaking study, researchers at Virginia Tech placed instrumented helmets on 7 and 8-year-old football players and collected data on more than 750 hits to the head over the course of a season... |
CNN: Dr. Sanjay Gupta on where 'Big Hits, Broken Dreams' began |
Watch "Dr. Sanjay Gupta Reports: Big Hits, Broken Dreams" Sunday, January 29 at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. ET |
Brown University News, September 7, 2011, Running backs take hardest hits, linemen take most |
Researchers gathered data on the frequency, direction, and magnitude of head impacts from players who wore sensor-equipped helmets during three football seasons at Brown University, Dartmouth College, and Virginia Tech. The data amount to a measure of players’ exposure to head impacts, which can ultimately help physicians and scientists understand how concussions occur... |
Virginia Tech News, May 10, 2011,Virginia Tech announces football helmet ratings for reducing concussion risk |
BLACKSBURG, VA – Virginia Tech released today the results of a new rating system of adult football helmets that is designed to reduce the risk of concussions. One currently manufactured helmet received the top "5 star" rating, and a total of five helmets received the very good "4-star" rating... |
New York Times, Novemeber 5, 2010, Safer Football, Taught From Inside the Helmet |
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Alan Pelc has been taught how to block since his Houston boyhood, how to push and pulverize and punish oncoming defenders on the football field. This was different. He was learning how not to punish himself... |
Times Magazine: "Best Inventions of 2007"In Time Magazine's 8th Annual Best Invention's issue, Simbex was recognized for the HIT System™ in the "Living Section". Inventions are chosen based on the criteria of "things that made people's lives better", according to Lev Grossman, the Time's staff writer that leads the "Best Inventions Team". |
Sybase: 2007 Sybase Innovator AwardSimbex was named a 2007 Sybase Innovator Award winner for their use of Sybase Technology in the development of the Head Impact Telemetry (HIT) System™ used to measure potentially injurious head impacts (concussions) in sports. |
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