News Articles About Simbex Developments

ActiveStep^®:

• Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center Skylight, Spring, 2009, A Step Ahead for Balance
• ABC's Good Morning America, May 13, 2009, The Science behind Elderly Falling, Slipping
• Physical Therapy Products, September 2008, Fall Prevention
• AARP Bulletin Today, June 13, 2008, Avoid Bad Falls by Exercising to Improve Balance
• The Salem News, June 20, 2008, A steadying influence: Gordon College's Center for Balance, Mobility and Wellness meets elders' growing needs
• Connecticut Valley Spectator, June 2008, Local company, Alice Peck Day Memorial team up to improve patients’ balance
• Valley News, March 31, 2008 A Sense of Balance, Lebanon Company's Machine Helps Prevent Falling
• New Haven Register (New Haven, CT) (KRT), January 01, 2008,High-Tech Treadmill Heals Fear of Falling
• The Courant, January 10, 2008, For The Old, Falls Are A Major Threat To Health And Independence
• New Haven Business Times, December 2007, Masonicare Gains Innovative New System

Head Impact Telemetry System™:

• New York Times, January 2, 2010, Helmets Becoming More Common on the Ski Slopes
• Scientific American, December 8, 2009, Hockey and Concussions
• The New Yorker, October 19, 2009, Offensive Play: How different are dogfighting and football?
• New York Times, August 25, 2009, Sports Imperative: Protecting Young Brains
• Discovery News, January 2009, Football Helmets Detect Concussions
• MIT Technology Review, January 2008, Concussion Sensing Helmet
• Science Daily, September 27, 2007, High School Football Players Wear Special Helmets To Monitor Brain Injuries
• Technology Review, September 18, 2007, Fighting Head Trauma in Iraq
• Technology Review, September 10, 2007, A Helmet that Detects Hard Hits
• Neurophilosophy Blog, September 10, 2007, New football helmet detects impacts that may cause traumatic brain injury
• NPR's Only a Game, September 8, 2007, Concussion Technology
• Wall Street Journal - The Informed Reader, September 6, 2007, Finding Out Which Football Blows Really Count
• Time, September 6, 2007, Football's Big Brainteaser
• Popular Science, August, 2007, Can This Football Helmet Save Lives?
• NewsOK.com, July 6, 2007, The mind-reading helmet key to 2006 Sooners study. "Concussions have really been understudied. Football has changed. Hits have become harder and harder."
• SportingNews.com, June 19, 2007, HIT System has an impact after the impact
• eWeek, April 11, 2007, Virginia Tech Tackles Head Injuries Using Wireless
• Sybase, 2006, Simbex LLC "HIT" Application Powered by Mobile Technology
• USA Today, July 27, 2006, From helmet to sideline, device measures impacts to head. "The latest football helmet innovation not only protects the head — it can read the mind."
• ESPN.com, November 10, 2004, Inside the helmet. "Slip behind the wheel of a vehicle, step hard onto the accelerator, then crash head-on into a wall,...."
• ScienCentralNews, November 8, 2004, Concussions & Helmets. "The deaths this fall of several high school athletes after head-to-head football collisions...."
• Valley News, October 30, 2004, Understanding Concussions. "It's football. It's a collision sport rife with violent hits...."
• ScienCentralNews, September 17, 2004, High-Tech Helmets. "A few universities are using some high-tech football helmets that record the force of the collisions...."
• SportsNewsSource, September 10, 2004, Riddell Acquires New Impact Monitoring Technology. "Riddell Sports Group has acquired a new impact monitoring system...."
• Virginia Business.com, February, 2004, Hokies, helmets and HITS. "Even football players have homework and, as the Virginia Tech football team...."
• Small Times, January 13, 2004, Small tech tackles concussion syndrome with MEMS helmets. "By the time the 2004 football season rolls around......."
• Associated Press, January 4, 2004, Study: Football Hits Similar to Crashes. "Football players were struck in the head 30 to 50 times per game....."
• Neuroskills Special Report, October 30, 2003, New Brain Injury Monitoring System. "While they were busy overpowering the Texas A&M Aggies on Sept. 18 in Lane Stadium, the Virginia Tech Hokies became the first athletes in the world to test a new brain injury monitoring system...."
• Daily Press, October 30, 2003, Virginia Tech: Severe concussion startles Manning. "As Brandon Manning watched video last week of Virginia Tech's 28-7 loss at West Virginia...."
• Valley News, September 18, 2003, New Method to Collect Injury Data. "Rick Greenwald will be on the sidelines at the Virginia Tech football game...."
• Roanoke Times News, September 16, 2003, Virginia Tech, HITS team up to study hits. "Stefan Duma, Bill Bussone and their computer looked out of place...."
• USA Today News, August 18, 2003, Wired football helmet to tell impact of blows to the head. "New technology is putting the pads on at Virginia Tech...."
• Fox 5 News WTTG-TV, Washington, DC, February, 2004
• Discovery Science, January, 2004

Active Contact System™:

• O&P Business News, March 15, 2003, Amputee Inventor Develops New Suction Socket. "Fluids engineer and amputee..."
• First Step, 2003, Addressing Limb Volume Fluctuation. "The company's Active Contact System™ - a self-actuated, liquid pump..."
• Directions in Engineering, Spring 2003, Out on a Limb. "It's irritating when your shoes that fit so comfortably in the morning are unbearably tight by nightfall..."
• Dartmouth Medicine, Fall 2002, Vital Signs. "Dartmouth expertise leads to a new way to attach limbs..."

IBEX™ In-Bed Exerciser:

• Journal of Geriatric Physical Therapy, 2002, Bedside Exercise for Mobility-Limited Nursing Home Residents: A Case Study. "Elderly persons who experience an illness or injury and spend some length of time immobilized in a bed..."