Helmets go Head-to-Head in NFL Testing

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Over 100 NFL players and thousands of high school students are wearing football helmets created by Seattle startup Vicis. This is to reconsider the helmet design from the inside to reduce concussion and other head injuries. There are good reasons. The company's two helmets earned the top two in the NFL helmet safety test earlier this spring. Now the company is expanding its focus from the stadium to the battlefield. Last year, the startup contracted with the US military to redesign some of helmet, co-founder, CEO Dave Marver. The company is working on integrating several football helmet technologies into standard helmets worn by the Army and the Marines.

One of the products NFL has chosen to invest through head health challenges is Vicis, which manufactures a helmet designed to mitigate the player's skull impact. According to Vicce CEO Dave Marver, the Zero 1 helmet adopts a four-layer design including a casing that deforms like a bumper when it receives a shock, and the impact is delayed before the impact. "Device innovations such as Zero 1 can play a major role as part of a multifaceted approach, including better attack methods, regulatory changes, and greater vigilance," Marver says . "Traditional helmets are designed to prevent fractures in the skull and Zero 1 utilizes mature technological innovation of automobile safety more effectively than traditional helmets ... ... and this is Vicis It can be expected for innovation of head protection technology, it is the first one. "

Investigation by National Football League has generated information that is shared with the helmet industry. And it can now better understand the movement of the head in the most common shock-induced hit. NFL wants to put the helmet in a specific position by 2020. For example, the design of those quarterback helmets can explain behind the helmet when the helmet hits the defender and is pushed back. In a study published by the American Medical Association in July 2017, the brains of the former football player who died were investigated, and 110 people out of 111 brains participating in NFL found that they had CTE It was. I found it in high school. And college student

As an essentially violent sport to tackle with destructive nature, how does NFL make players safer?