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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 a...

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...

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 acc...

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 ...

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 ...