Simbex Press Release

SIMBEX AWARDED A SMALL BUSINSESS INNOVATION RESEARCH AWARD FOR LOW-COST HEAD IMPACT ALERT SYSTEM

Lebanon, NH- March 19, 2009 - Research and product development firm Simbex was awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) award from the National Institutes of Health for development of a low-cost head impact alert system, HitAlert™, for use in helmeted sports. Principal Investigator Jeff Chu, Vice President of Engineering at Simbex, will lead the development of this novel and low cost approach to monitoring head impacts that builds upon Simbex's successful Head Impact Telemetry (HIT) System.

"Simbex developed a new brain injury tolerance measure, HITsp, based on what we've learned from analyzing over 1 million recorded head impacts in football, hockey, soccer, winter sports, equestrian and boxing. The HitAlert system developed in this new program incorporates HITsp in a more compact and cost-effective system for sideline monitoring of head impacts that may be associated with concussions", said Chu. HitAlert expands the market for helmets at all levels of play, including youth sports, by making the technology available at a reasonable price point. This next-generation of head impact monitoring comes as public awareness regarding concussion injury has grown dramatically.

HitAlert™ complements and expands the HIT System technology product line, which is sold commercially as Sideline Response System™ and Revolution HITS IQ™ by industry powerhouse Riddell. "HitAlert measures how often, how hard, and where on the head a player is impacted, and maintains a time-history of recent impacts as well. It provides sideline personnel with critical information about the player's head impact history that can help guide their clinical decisions on the field", commented co-investigator and Simbex founder and President Richard Greenwald, PhD.

Simbex maintains the largest database of head impacts in helmeted sports, and uses that data to develop new measures for concussion injury. HIT System technology is used to better understand the relationship between head impacts and clinical outcomes related to concussion as part of an ongoing five-year project funded by the National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research within the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development at the National Institutes of Health. Partners in this NIH study include Dartmouth Medical School Departments of Psychiatry and Pediatric Neurosurgery, Dartmouth Athletics, Rhode Island Hospital Department of Orthopaedics, Brown University Dept of Athletics, Virginia Tech Department of Biomedical Engineering and Department of Athletics, and Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine.

About Simbex LLC
Simbex is a research and product development company whose core expertise is biomechanical feedback systems. The company develops marketable products and solutions from emerging technologies for active life improvement in the areas of prosthetics, sports injury prevention and rehabilitation. The founders are internationally recognized experts in their fields and have decades of experience in the area of functional evaluation and efficacy assessment of complex biomechanical systems for the sporting goods, orthopedic and exercise equipment industries. The research branch of the company is supported in part by grants from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the Department of Defense. For further information about Simbex, visit the company's Web site at http://www.simbex.com.