Posted on Sun, Jan. 13, 2008
05/11/2006 10:03 AM -
Some 300,000 sports-related head injuries occur each year according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The vast majority of these head injuries involve young people. Doctors say its common for young people playing a sport to minimize the seriousness of a blow to the head so they can continue to participate. These blows can produce an injury that can have some long-term effects according to neurosurgeons, neurologists, pneuropsychologists and sport medicine specialists. Short-term memory, behavior, maturing, learning and other factors in a child can change with just one head injury.
The technical staff of Innovative Patent, LLC has been working on and testing new products and ideas for protective headgear for many years. They now have a patented protective headband that is unique to unique to the sports-world. The Forcefield Headband looks like and feels like a sweatband. It absorbs and dissipates perspiration just like an ordinary sweatband. However, it also absorbs and dissipates significant impact forces to the same area covered so that the risk of severity of an impact will be reduced significantly.
The headband will reduce the risk of head injuries to young people. It looks and fits just like a regular sweatband. However, unlike the regular sweatband, the Forcefield Headband can absorb and dissipate up to 80% of the force of a soccer ball to the protected area of the head. This makes it ideal for soccer, basketball and other non-contact sports (see test data at: www.forcefieldheadbands.com).
The Forcefield Headband is reversible and comes in a variety of team colors. It can be cleaned by simply by placing the headband under running water using liquid soap. The Forcefield Headband is now being sold throughout North America and overseas. It may be purchase at: www.sportscampfederation.com/forcefield.asp or in our sporting goods store.
If Braeuer Can Return, Headband May Come Into Play
If Matt Braeuer's basketball career continues, an assist goes to a radio caller who suggested Wichita State look into protective headgear. Intrigued by the call to coach Gregg Marshall's weekly radio show, Marshall, Braeuer and trainer Todd Fagan investigated. They found a padded headband marketed to soccer players that might help. He missed his fourth game Saturday with a concussion, the fourth one of his Shocker career.
It is such a common-sense idea, Marshall wonders why nobody thought of it earlier.
Protective headgear is not often associated with basketball. Braeuer may be the test case, if he resumes his playing career. "It pads the impact areas that are the most often hit," Fagan said. "The forehead, the temporal bones, basically the side of the head, as well as the back of the head."
Soccer players often take head-to-head or knee-to-head blows. There is also concern about the cumulative effects of headers. How effective can the headband be in basketball? Fagan is not sure, other than citing the company's data from soccer studies. It is a relatively new approach, so there is not a lot of information available.
Braeuer likes the idea of wearing it, although his future on the court remains undecided. The headaches and other symptoms of a concussion persisted through last week. He suffered the concussion late in a game against Drake on Dec. 29. "Obviously, I have to be healthy before I ever try it," he said. "If the time comes, and hopefully when the time comes, I'll wear it. I'm a basketball player at heart. I'd like to be out there with my teammates." Fagan contacted Jim Bain, the Missouri Valley Conference coordinator of officials, to get the headband cleared. The NCAA approved it after checking it out on the Internet. If Braeuer plays with it, Bain will contact referees to let them know the headband is legal.
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