Mouthpiece for mTBI Detection during Adolescent Contact and Collision Sports

项目概要/摘要 需要新的廉价工具来发现潜在的脑震荡事件或轻度脑创伤 运动场上的受伤（mTBI）。随着我们对脑震荡的长期影响的了解， 脑震荡打击，和休息的重要性，在脑震荡事件，需要工具，以确定 脑震荡正成为公众日益关注的问题。许多这些名义上的"轻微"伤害导致穷人 对个体生活质量产生不利影响的神经系统结果-即二次撞击综合征， 脑震荡综合征和长期的神经认知缺陷，如学习障碍，记忆问题， 情绪或行为的变化。尽管公众对这一问题的认识不断提高，但TBI很难 被确定为运动员的人通常会隐藏体征和症状，只有10%的病例会导致意识丧失， 而其他mTBI体征和症状可能仅持续15分钟或更短。TBI的识别过程中 体育活动是非常重要的，因为TBI患者更容易受到伤害， 更严重的脑损伤，直到他们被治愈。此外，虽然最近的研究表明， 年轻的运动员更有可能维持mTBI，更容易受到长期影响， 将临床结果与青少年前和青少年的生物力学评估联系起来的实际数据。以来 目前还没有头盔或安全装备可以在运动中防止脑震荡， 正在为脑震荡教育和风险管理投入资源。风险管理目前 以宏观尺度为中心，有严格的回归游戏指导方针和联盟规则或州法律， 例如，一周进行三次以上的接触练习。建议的解决方案采用独特的设计， 提供了一种具有比目前可获得的商业产品更好的精度和/或更低的成本的烟嘴，所述商业产品 可用于所有运动。该解决方案将为进一步的临床治疗提供潜在脑震荡的边线警报。 评价和头部撞击剂量测定。为该项目组建的研究小组包括一个 商业化合作伙伴与目前的定制喉舌产品和深厚的行业联系，一个成功的 工程团队和一个研究小组，已经进行了以前的吹口冲击传感器的研究。

Project Summary/Abstract There is a need for new inexpensive tools to discover potential concussive events or mild traumatic brain injuries (mTBIs) on the playing field. As we discover more about the long term effects of concussions, sub- concussive blows, and the importance of rest following a concussive event, the need for tools to identify concussions is becoming an increasing public concern. Many of these nominally “mild” injuries lead to poor neurological outcomes that adversely affect an individual's quality of life – i.e. second impact syndrome, post concussion syndrome, and long lasting neurocognitive deficits such as learning disabilities, memory problems, and emotional or behavioral changes. Despite increasing public awareness of this issue, TBIs are difficult to identify as athletes commonly hide the signs and symptoms, only 10% of cases result in loss of consciousness, and other mTBI signs and symptoms may only last for fifteen minutes or fewer. Recognition of TBI's during sports activities is very important because individuals with TBI's are much more vulnerable, given further impacts, to more severe brain injury until they are healed. Additionally, while recent research indicates that younger athletes are more likely to sustain an mTBI and are more vulnerable to long term effects, there is little actual data linking clinical outcomes with biomechanical assessment for pre-teens and adolescents. Since there is currently no helmet or safety gear that is protective against concussion during athletics, many resources are being put into concussion education and risk management. Risk management is currently centered on the macro scale with strict return to play guidelines and league rules or state laws that prohibit full contact practices more than three times a week for example. The proposed solution uses a unique design to provide a mouthpiece with better accuracy and/or lower cost than currently available commercial products that can be used in all sports. The solution will provide a sideline alert of a potential concussion for further clinical evaluation and head impact dosimetry. The research team assembled for this project includes a commercialization partner with current custom mouthpiece products and deep industry ties, a successful engineering team, and a research group that has performed previous mouthpiece impact sensor studies.