CINCINNATI — Joe Burrow arrived at Bengals coaching camp on Wednesday with a brand new helmet in hand, designed to forestall concussions induced when a participant’s head hits the bottom.
Burrow’s Vicis Zero 2 helmet is an up to date model of a helmet examined, together with three others, by College of Cincinnati biomedical engineering professor Eric Nauman.
Nauman examined helmets made by 4 producers: Xenith, Riddell, Vicis and Schutt. Burrow’s helmet through the 2022 season was a Vicis Zero 1.
Throughout testing, Nauman and different College of Cincinnati researchers “used a modal hammer to strike a dummy head each with and with out a helmet to measure how effectively every mitigated the pressure of the blow utilizing sensors,” in line with a press launch from UC.
The experiment discovered that nobody helmet design had “superior” discount for probabilities of concussion at each a part of the helmet.
However general, the backs of the helmets have been by far the weakest level, the research discovered.
“Many of the places on the helmet will take in 80% to 90% of the impression, however the again of the helmet usually solely will get about 50%” mentioned Nauman. “So after they go backwards, they get tackled they usually fall again to the turf, that’s an particularly dangerous kind of hit. So, our hope is by publicizing this sort of info, the helmet firms will make these safer as we go.”
At Paycor Stadium in 2022, Miami quarterback Tua Tagovailoa was taken off the sphere on a stretcher within the second quarter of the sport after the again of his head hit the turf.
In accordance with UC, the NFL noticed a dramatic improve in concussions within the 2022 season — up 18% from the earlier season.
Bengals receiver Tee Higgins and operating again Joe Mixon additionally suffered concussions in 2022.
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