There’s talk about the need for a list of ICE contacts, or In Case of Emergency contacts on your phone so emergency crews know who to contact if something should happen. But what if you need to contact your ICE list to get emergency crews to come look for you? We hope that never happens, but if you’re like us and go for bike rides, hikes, climbs and other activities in the outdoors, you may want to set up a safety net. Continue reading Crash on ICEdot
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gForce Tracker Adds Up Trauma
Head injuries are getting a lot of attention, all the way from little league teams to the pros. While the focus is primarily on football, other sports including baseball come into play on the issue. A new device, the gForce Tracker (GFT) will help athletes (and parents of younger athletes) track cumulative trauma to help tell players when they need a time out. Continue reading gForce Tracker Adds Up Trauma
New Technology Reduces Football Related Head Trauma
One would think that something called “Unequal” would return mixed results. But in fact Unequal CRT, an uneven supplemental helmet padding designed by UNEQUAL Technologies, has been found to reduce the occurrence of concussions during the season.
The Unequal CRT padding – CRT stands for Concussion Reduction Technology – dampens and disperses energy associated with blunt force trauma. This occurs enough to register significant drops in the Severity Index, a measurement of the hazard or risk of injury associated with helmet impacts. Unequal CRT has already been used by some pro athletes in the NFL, and is now available for high school and college football teams.