Eóin Tuohy, founder of Sports Impact Technologies, has created a wearable monitor to make high-impact sports safer
Head injuries are a concern in any contact sport but it can be difficult for those watching a game to assess just how severe an impact has been. Eóin Tuohy, founder of Sports Impact Technologies, saw this as a problem in search of a solution and combined his skills in mechanical engineering and human space flight to develop a sensor that sits behind the ear and feeds live impact data directly to the sideline.
Coaches, managers, medics, or parents monitoring their child, get access to the data via a pitchside app. If the system is being used by a team the app will list the players and any impacts will show up against their names. There is also a web portal working away in the background collating the cumulative data. This shows how many times a player headed the ball during a game or suffered an impact.
“The big worry is always second impact syndrome,” says Eóin Tuohy. “That’s where someone suffers an impact or a concussion that’s not picked up at the time and then they suffer another one in the same game or maybe a week later and that can cause real problems.
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