Effectiveness and usability of the HALO compression shirt

HALO 压缩衬衫的有效性和可用性

• 批准号: 534022-2018
• 负责人: Dickey, James
• 金额: $ 1.82万
• 依托单位: University of Western Ontario
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Engage Grants Program
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2018-01-01 至 2019-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=649261
• 关键词: Effectiveness; usability; HALO; compression; shirt

Approximately 100,000 concussions are diagnosed each year in Canadian hospitals,and approximately two-thirds**are sports related. Prevention of concussions is a major focus for Canadians, and has been taken up by a variety**of sports equipment manufacturers. A Canadian design and technology company, Aexos Inc. (Waterloo, Ontario**Canada), has developed a compression shirt designed to reduce whiplash of the head and neck during impacts in**contact sports. The effectiveness of this technology has been assessed through computer modelling, and**laboratory testing. However, its effectiveness has not been assessed in sports environments with athletes.**Furthermore, there has been little research evaluating the usability of this equipment. This company is interested**in researching the effectiveness of their technology in attenuating the magnitude of head accelerations during**contact sports, and evaluating its usability. We have been performing research evaluating the magnitude of head**impacts in varsity football, and their neurological consequences, for the past 5 years. We propose to evaluate the**effectiveness of the HALO technology by comparing the magnitude of the head impacts from players wearing the**HALO technology compared to historical data of matched impacts when the players were not wearing HALO**technology. In specific, impacts from players wearing the HALO technology will be matched based on player**position and style of play (offense, defense, running, passing, kick return etc) to our library of more than 100,000**impacts collected over the past 5 years. In addition, we will survey the players to garner information about the**usability of the technology.

加拿大医院每年诊断出大约10万例脑震荡，其中大约三分之二 ** 与运动有关。预防脑震荡是加拿大人的一个主要重点，并已采取了各种 ** 的运动器材制造商。加拿大设计和技术公司Aexos Inc.（加拿大安大略滑铁卢）开发了一种压缩衬衫，旨在减少在接触性运动中头部和颈部的撞击。这项技术的有效性已通过计算机建模和 ** 实验室测试进行了评估。然而，其有效性尚未在有运动员的运动环境中进行评估。此外，很少有研究评估这种设备的可用性。该公司有兴趣研究他们的技术在减少接触性运动中头部加速度的有效性，并评估其可用性。在过去的5年里，我们一直在进行研究，评估大学橄榄球运动中头部撞击的程度及其神经学后果。我们建议通过比较佩戴 **HALO技术的球员头部撞击的幅度与球员未佩戴HALO** 技术时匹配撞击的历史数据来评估HALO技术的 ** 有效性。具体来说，佩戴HALO技术的球员的撞击将根据球员 ** 的位置和比赛风格（进攻、防守、跑动、传球、回踢等）与我们过去5年收集的超过100，000 ** 次撞击进行匹配。此外，我们还将对玩家进行调查，以收集有关该技术可用性的信息。