By: Trent Sullivan
The chances of getting a concussion for a football player are significantly greater compared to athletes in other sports. Studies have shown that the majority of concussions go unreported because concussions do not show any obvious injury to the body. i1Biometrics has created a new concussion-sensing mouthguard that provides athletic trainers with measurable data to diagnose concussion instead of just through observations. The Vector Mouthguard has a built micro-chip. accelerator, gyroscope, battery, and antenna that measures the impact of a hit taken to the head. The Vector mouthguard is more accurate than other concussion sensors on the market because of the contact that the mouthguard has to the players skull. The Vector mouthguard also sends the data collected from the mouthguard wirelessly in real-time to the sideline. This life saving mouthguard costs $199.
Do you think that this mouthguard is worth the price?
Can you see this becoming more popular for football players to use?
Here is the article about the Vector Mouthguard and the home of i1 Biometrics.
This is a great investment. I don't think the cost is an issue, considering that it would be able to detect concussions early. The sooner the better. I hope that more football teams would invest in this. I think that they would. Ultimately I think it would come down to having the funds for it.
ReplyDeleteThe mouthguard would help but I think most of the damage to the brain will not be solved by a small plastic thing in your mouth. The research on brain damage of NFL players is crazy. A lot of the criminal charges for NFL players involve aggression and violence. Many people think its because of the repetitive beatings their brains take. This is a good start to moving forward though.
ReplyDeleteThis is the mouth piece i have actually used growing playing football. Although, mine wasnt quite as expensive as this is but it was definitely worth the price. My concussion was a bad one to where i had to get carted off the field for a game, but it was crazy because i never would have thought a mouthpiece would help prevent the concussion from being even more of an issue than it was. I would hope more teams would look into this and provide these to teams. I would definitely recommend this.
ReplyDeleteI think this could be a good tool. However from experience with several concussions and I think that the symptoms, after effects, etc are are specific in how the effect every person. I don't know how I would feel about the reliability of something like this in dealing with concessions.
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