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Blood Test Could Help Diagnose Concussions
A report Monday in the journal Pediatrics says kids who suffer concussions should lay off reading, homework and video games. By giving their brains a rest, most can recover in 20 to 50 days, about twice as fast as those who keep doing those activities. We also have news regarding how concussions are diagnosed. Researchers are developing a test that could be a game changer.
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RIDDELL OUTFITS SEMPER FIDELIS ALL-AMERICAN BOWL PLAYERS WITH LATEST EQUIPMENT INNOVATIONS
For the second year, Riddell is the official protective equipment partner at the annual matchup of top high school football players from the East and West. This year, the brand is providing Power SPX shoulder pads, Power Padded Girdles and Revolution Speed helmets equipped with Riddell InSite Impact Response technology - a newly released integrated monitoring and alerting tool designed specifically for the proactive protection of football players at the youth and high school level.
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Riddell Introduces InSite Impact Response System
New concussion alert technology is aimed at reducing injuries in young players: One of the biggest topics in football today is head injuries. And it’s become more important than ever to find ways to make the game safer. Solutions have ranged from stiffer penalties for head hits in the pro game to teaching safer tackling at the youth level.
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Concussion Sensing Helmet Could Save Athletes' Lives
New technology from the sport equipment manufacturer will help identify possibly injured players on the field. The growth of concussion and head trauma awareness in football over the past decade has led to a slew of procedural changes in an attempt to curb occurrence. Defenseless receiver rules, helmet-to-helmet violations, and moving kickoffs up to the 35-yard line are all attempts to make football safer by reducing high-impact hits on players’ heads. Even so, head trauma can still occur without players and trainers even knowing, which only compounds its severity. Hopefully, InSite can change that.
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Football Concussions Could be Reduced, If Riddell's InSite System Goes Into Play
"This is not a diagnostic tool." That's what Riddell, the country's largest manufacturer of football helmets, kept emphasizing during a presentation of its newly developed InSite head-impact monitoring system. The fact it would throw this disclaimer out there isn't surprising, really. After all, the topic involving concussions in the NFL is one that's been massively debated by many different entities, inside and outside of the sport, over the past few years. Most recently, PBS debuted a documentary titled League of Denial: The NFL's Concussion Crisis, in which it delved deep into the "hidden story" between brain injuries and the National Football League.
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Riddell Doubling Down on Concussion Data
It didn't take long for most sporting goods companies to flee the football helmet business 20 years ago. After waves of lawsuits alleging the failure to warn about the dangers of the sport and that helmets were ineffective in preventing concussions, the number of companies making them dropped from more than a dozen in the late 1970s to only a couple of major names by the early 1990s.