A youth-specific helmet for preventing traumatic brain injury

预防创伤性脑损伤的青少年专用头盔

• 批准号: 10268212
• 负责人: David Camarillo
• 金额: $ 5.85万
• 依托单位: SAVIOR BRAIN INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-09-30 至 2023-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10268212
• 关键词: Address; Adult; Air; Area; Athletic; Bicycling; Brain; Brain Concussion; Brain Injuries; Car Seats; Certification; Child; Clinical; Clinical Research; Coupled; Craniocerebral Trauma; Dangerousness; Elements; Ensure; Epidemic; Equipment; Funding; Geometry; Goals; Head; Helmet; Injury; Laboratories; Liquid substance; Manufactured football; Modeling; Monitor; Participant; Performance; Phase; Population; Prevention; Property; Protocols documentation; Recovery; Rest; Risk; Shock; Snow Sports; Speed; Sports; Sports Equipment; Study Subject; Surface; System; Technology; Testing; Time; Traumatic Brain Injury; United States; Universities; Vulnerable Populations; Weight; Youth; absorption; computer studies; cranium; experience; falls; human subject; improved; invention; light weight; novel; pressure; prevent; prospective; prototype; severe injury; youth sports

PROJECT SUMMARY Head injuries, including nearly 4 million concussions per year, are common among the nearly 40 million participants in organized youth sports in the United States. Despite recent technologies marketed to reduce concussion risk, head injuries continue to rise among youth athletes. Furthermore, studies to improve protective equipment have largely focused on adult populations, leading to athletic equipment optimized for protection against the risk of catastrophic injuries from severe high-energy collisions. Protective equipment is needed that provides maximal protection across a wider range of impact energies including the lower, yet still dangerous, impact energies experienced at the youth level. Creating youth-specific helmets is essential for tackling the concussion epidemic among this vulnerable population of athletes. SoftShock is a novel shock absorber which manages impact energy to result in generally lower force levels than traditional foams used in helmets, giving it the potential to drastically reduce the risk of brain injury. We propose to integrate SoftShock technology into a youth football helmet to show the feasibility of the technology, afterwards expanding into broader markets such as bicycling, equestrian, child car seats, playground fall surfacing, and more. In this Phase I proposal, we are requesting funding to target the principal requirements for successful implementation of SoftShock technology in a youth helmet: 1) helmet comfort and fit 2) shock absorber unit weight and robustness, and 3) helmet performance. The completed helmet prototype from Phase 1 proposal will lead to a Phase II submission on the first ever prospective clinical study of a football helmet with the goal of having the first helmet validated to reduce the risk of concussion among youth. Specific Aim 1: Develop comfortable and well-fitting helmet interiors A detailed finite element model of our helmet will be used to determine the necessary size, placement, and distribution of SoftShocks in order to maximize head comfort and helmet fit across a range of youth head sizes. Specific Aim 2: Manufacture lightweight, durable, and recoverable shock absorbing units Softshock will be manufactured and unit tested to ensure that its weight, multi-impact durability, and recovery time meets or exceeds that of standard foams and air shocks. Specific Aim 3: Test helmet prototypes for performance SoftShocks will be integrated into a lightweight helmet shell, creating prototypes to be tested in standard certification protocols to demonstrate superior performance across a wide range of impact energies as compared to existing youth football helmets.

项目概要 头部受伤，包括每年近 400 万起脑震荡，在近 4000 万人中很常见。 美国有组织的青少年体育运动的参与者。尽管最近销售的技术可以减少 脑震荡风险和头部受伤在青少年运动员中持续上升。此外，研究改进 防护装备主要针对成年人，导致运动装备针对成年人进行了优化 防止严重高能碰撞造成灾难性伤害的风险。防护装备是 需要在更广泛的冲击能量范围内提供最大程度的保护，包括较低但仍然 青少年经历过危险的、具有影响力的能量。打造青少年专用头盔至关重要 解决这一弱势运动员群体中的脑震荡流行问题。 SoftShock 是一种新型减震器，可管理冲击能量以产生较低的力水平 与头盔中使用的传统泡沫相比，它有可能大大降低脑损伤的风险。我们 提议将SoftShock技术融入青少年足球头盔中，以展示该技术的可行性， 随后扩展到更广泛的市场，如自行车、马术、儿童汽车安全座椅、游乐场坠落 表面处理等。 在此第一阶段提案中，我们请求资金来满足成功的主要要求 SoftShock 技术在青少年头盔中的应用：1) 头盔舒适度和贴合度 2) 减震装置 重量和坚固性，以及 3) 头盔性能。第一阶段提案中完成的头盔原型 将导致第一个橄榄球头盔前瞻性临床研究的第二阶段提交，目标是 验证第一款头盔可降低青少年脑震荡的风险。 具体目标 1：开发舒适且合身的头盔内饰 我们的头盔的详细有限元模型将用于确定必要的尺寸、位置和 分布 SoftShocks，以最大限度地提高头部舒适度和头盔适合各种青少年头部尺寸的程度。 具体目标2：制造轻质、耐用、可恢复的减震装置 Softshock 将进行制造和单元测试，以确保其重量、多重冲击耐用性和恢复能力 时间达到或超过标准泡沫和空气冲击的时间。 具体目标 3：测试头盔原型的性能 SoftShocks 将集成到轻质头盔外壳中，创建要在标准中进行测试的原型 认证协议，以证明在各种冲击能量下的卓越性能 与现有的青少年足球头盔相比。