the effect is starting to show in football heroes of the past. five out of the ii man 1966 england football world cup winning squad had developed dementia in later life. these kinds of impacts aren t just a concern for seasoned pros, it can affect anyone, professionals, amateurs and especially children and teenagers. the effects of sub concussion is far greater in children. you can see it in severe cases. the recovery time is far, far longer. but edinburgh based company hit has come up with a piece of technology they think might help tackle the problem by measuring how much impact an athlete sustains to the head when taking part in sport. i went to their lab at heriot watt university to see their final stages of testing. and what we re doing is we re basically calibrating the accelerometer that s in the back of the head in the hit device. it gives us a really good indication of kind of how
you get changes in the electrical circuitry. to what you call the sub concussive hits, you re not getting any symptoms and, in many ways, that is more sinister because you can have these sub concussive hits week in, week out over a number of years and not detect them. the effect is starting to show in football heroes of the past. 5 out of the ii man 1966 world cup winning squad developed dementia in later life. these kinds of impacts aren t just a concern for seasoned pros, they can affect anyone, professionals, amateurs and especially children and teenagers. the effects of sub concussion is far greater in children. you can see it in severe cases. the recovery time is far, far longer. but edinburgh based company hit has come up with a piece of technology they think might tackle the problem by measuring how much impact an athlete
the effects of sub concussion is far greater in children. you can see it in severe cases. the recovery time is far, far longer. but edinburgh based company hit has come up with a piece of technology they think might tackle the problem by measuring how much impact an athlete sustains to the head when taking part in sport. i went to their lab at heriot watt university to see their final stages of testing. and what we re doing is we re basically calibrating the accelerometer that s in the back of the head in the hit device to give us a really good indication of kind of how sensitive the accelerometer is and if we need to maybe alter that or if it s all good to go. would that be kind of the equivalent of the sort of impacts people might be getting in a real world situation, or are you sort of going beyond that? so what we re doing here, the 60 gs is our threshold impact. what we would do there is put an adult rugby player, or an adult, anyone that s
in later life. these kinds of impacts aren t just a concern for seasoned pros, they can affect anyone, professionals, amateurs and especially children and teenagers. the effects of sub concussion is far greater in children. you can see it in severe cases. the recovery time is far, far longer. but edinburgh based company hit has come up with a piece of technology they think might tackle the problem by measuring how much impact an athlete sustains to the head when taking part in sport. i went to their lab at heriot watt university to see their final stages of testing. and what we re doing is we re basically calibrating the accelerometer that s in the back of the head in the hit device to give us a really good indication of kind of how sensitive the accelerometer is and if we need to maybe alter that or if it s all good to go. would that be kind of
to what you call the sub concussive hits, you re not getting any symptoms and, in many ways, that is more sinister because you can have these sub concussive hits week in, week out over a number of years and not detect them. the effect is starting to show in football heroes of the past. 5 out of the ii man 1966 world cup winning squad developed dementia in later life. these kinds of impacts aren tjust a concern for seasoned pros, they can affect anyone, professionals, amateurs and especially children and teenagers. the effects of sub concussion is far greater in children. you can see it in severe cases. the recovery time is far, far longer. but edinburgh based company hit has come up with a piece of technology they think might tackle the problem by measuring how much impact an athlete sustains to the head when taking part in sport.