Traumatic Brain Injury

Foam may protect you from whacks on the head, but it's not sufficient when you're cycling at speed. That's where RLS bike helmet tech comes in. It offers 4x the concussion protection of a regular helmet, via ball bearings and panels that pop off.

Although helmets are required for many sports, Canadian materials engineering technologist Albert Beyer believes that they don't provide enough protection to the back of the head. His solution is a "crumple zone for helmets" known as the DCLR8.

​Even if an armored military vehicle isn't destroyed when a land mine detonates underneath it, its occupants can still receive traumatic brain injuries. Scientists are trying to keep that from happening, with a new shock-absorbing system that could also have applications in civilian products.

​The most common cause of concussions in hockey is shoulder-to-head impacts. According to research being conducted at Vancouver's Simon Fraser University, however, the severity of those impacts could be greatly reduced with the simple addition of a layer of foam.

Looking to tackle the early signs of traumatic brain injury, the US Navy is developing small sensors that, when paired with specialized scanner, can quickly convert blast pressure into a clear signal of whether of not that soldier should stand down.​​

When one Texas high school player suffered a concussion, he was inspired to develop a more protective helmet and shoulder pads, inspired by nature. ​

Picking up on the symptoms and long-term effects of concussion can be tricky business. Looking to further our understanding of brain injuries and how they can be managed to avoid long-term harm, Samsung has developed an experimental brainBAND to quantify the force of impacts to the head.

Helmets help reduce the likelihood of concussions, but they're not 100 percent effective. Help may be on the way, however, in the form of a simple neck band.​

University of Michigan researchers have entered the race to build a lightweight, more affordable and more effective football helmet with a system they’ve called Mitigatium that incorporates three different layers that are meant to blunt some dangerous physics that today’s helmet designs ignore.

The ATR-1 helmet features an internal suspension system, allowing it to absorb a wider range of impacts than a regular helmet.