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#ICYMI - Protecting Your Dome: Concussions & Helmet Technology

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🗓️ 13 September 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Discover more about the latest in concussion research and helmet technology with hosts Gary O’Reilly, Chuck Nice, Dr. Samuel Browd, Co-Founder of VICIS, Richard Brandt, PhD, CEO of Sports Science, and Dr. Roger Härtl, neurosurgeon for the New York Giants. Don’t miss an episode of Playing with Science. Please subscribe to our channels on: Apple Podcasts: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/playing-with-science/id1198280360 TuneIn: https://tunein.com/podcasts/Science-Podcasts/Playing-with-Science-p952100/ GooglePlay Music: https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/Iimke5bwpoh2nb25swchmw6kzjq SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/startalk_playing-with-science Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/startalk/playing-with-science NOTE: StarTalk All-Access subscribers can watch or listen to this entire episode commercial-free here: https://www.startalkradio.net/all-access/protecting-your-dome-concussions-helmet-technology/

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0:00.0

I'm Gary O'Reilly. And I'm Chuck Knies. This is playing with science. Yes,

0:14.6

concussions and head traumas are most definitely this season's must not have

0:19.6

thing and people are rightly concerned but is there light at the end of the

0:24.0

tunnel? Yes, well actually there may well be light at the end of the tunnel as

0:28.3

we speak because active steps have already been taken in a number of major

0:32.8

sports to combat exactly this issue. Mild traumatic brain injuries and chronic

0:38.6

traumatic encelopathy are no longer marginal issues but are now at the forefront of

0:44.6

many minds. And today we focus on what is being done especially in the world of

0:49.5

football. Yeah. So Dr. Samuel Brown is a neural surgeon as well as the co-founder

0:55.0

and chief medical officer of VCs, BICIS, developing new football helmet

1:01.2

technology that shows significant reduction in impact forces for NFL college and

1:06.4

youth football. And we'll also have physicist Richard Brandt CEO of sports science

1:11.3

football who do a lot of helmet testing. As well as Dr. Roger Hartel, official

1:16.9

neural surgeon for the New York football giants. So I think what we have is a

1:21.6

group of experts who can address why things need to happen. What is happening?

1:28.2

Where we are going to go from where we are right now because I think if we look

1:32.0

backwards we're not going to help ourselves. No and you know what here's the thing

1:35.5

first of all we know that we have so much more information I available nowadays

1:39.1

you know there was a time I remember when I was a kid playing football and you

1:42.4

know the whole idea was to ring somebody's bell as they would say like that's

1:48.2

what you wanted to do and now we know that you know that's a problem but it's

1:53.2

not just football it's not just the NFL I mean you look at they talk about the

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