Concussions and brain injuries have been a hot topic in sports for a while, but new tech in this helmet might be paving the way for the diagnosis and treatment for head trauma. The helmet is called HIT and it’s designed to track G-forces that reach the brain, providing a better system for quantifying their impact on the brain.
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00:00Concussions and brain injuries have been a hot topic in sports for a while but new tech in this
00:08helmet might be paving the way for the diagnosis and treatment for future head trauma. This is
00:14world champion mountain biker Reece Wilson and he's helping test the new brain protecting wearable.
00:18Here's why. Absolutely it's very difficult to track a brain injury just simply because you
00:22can't see it. It's inside your head and everybody has symptoms that can be I guess easily diagnosed
00:29as something else as well so it is a very complex situation so a device like this I think is vital
00:34for pretty much all contact sport. The device is designed to track g-forces that reach the head
00:39providing a better system for quantifying their impact on the brain. Currently head trauma in
00:44sports is determined by g-force over time with that number being 65 g's for women and 75 for men.
00:50However Angus Hunter professor of neuromuscular physiology says this is just a number and
00:55there's no quantifiable evidence to support these safety thresholds. Enter HIT a device which attaches
01:00to a helmet and tracks forces on the brain and can help athletes know when enough is enough even
01:06if they haven't wiped out. Here's HIT inventor Ewan Bowen to explain. It's the gray area it's people not
01:12knowing when to stop not knowing when to continue it's like do I have a concussion do I not it's the
01:16only organ in your body that doesn't have pain receptors so it has to do all your decision making
01:21for you so all we're doing is informing you with data so you can make a better decision or your
01:25friend or your teammate or your parent can make a better decision or you individually.