Low Cost Head Impact Alert System for Helmeted Sports

描述（由申请人提供）：疾病控制中心（CDC）估计仅在美国每年轻度创伤性脑损伤（mTBI）的发病率约为120万例。大约三分之一的这些伤害发生在足球比赛中。美国国立卫生研究院IIb期SBIR项目的主要目标是扩大目前商业化的InSite撞击警报监测系统的效用，该系统在第一/第二阶段开发，以整合长期的球员特定头部撞击暴露跟踪，以识别风险影响（即现场警报）和高风险行为（即糟糕的处理技术）。脑损伤很难“看”出来，尤其是在球场上。我们已经成功开发了一种辅助工具，可以识别非典型冲击或现场一系列冲击，可用于触发辅助脑震荡管理。目前缺乏的是识别可能最终导致脑震荡的高风险行为的能力。拟议的技术和创新将减少所有比赛级别的头部撞击，从而降低脑震荡的风险。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Center for Disease Control (CDC) estimates the yearly incidence of mild Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI) at approximately 1.2 million cases in the United States alone. Approximately 1/3 of these injuries occur in football. The Principal Objective of this NIH Phase IIb SBIR project is to expand the utility of the current, and now commercially available, InSite impact alert monitoring system developed in Phase I/Phase II to integrate long-term player specific head impact exposure tracking for identifying both at- risk impacts (i.e. on-field alerting) and high-risk behavior (i.e. poor tackling technique). Brain injur is difficult to "see", particularly on the field. We have successfully developed a sideline tool that can identify atypical impacts or series of impacts in the field that can be used to trigger management of concussion on the sideline. What is currently lacking is the ability to identify high-risk behavior that may eventually lead to concussion. The proposed technology and innovation will reduce head impact exposures at all playing levels resulting in lower concussion risk.