JUST WONDERING. HAS ANYBODY CONSIDERED INFLATABLE 'AIR BAGS' inside hockey or football helmets to reduce the growing incidence of concussions in professional sports?
There's no doubt the technology exists to do so. Like, helmets with air bladders pumped full to keep them in place after the athletes put them on and additional bladders which would inflate instantly with sharp impact. Compressed air to inflate the protective layer(s) in a shell on the exterior of the helmet.
How about a 'crushable' outer shell of three layers to absorb some of the initial shock? The athletes would probably find the new-age helmets too heavy and too cumbersome, but something has to be done.
Athletes today are bigger, faster and stronger and yet the arenas in which they compete are the original size. Obviously, players' impacts are much more savage.
There are dozens of athletes right now whose careers are in jeopardy because of concussions (MVPs Sidney Crosby and Justin Morneau, to name two) and the number of incidents is rising precipitously.
--BAS
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I totally agree on the concussion issue, but how? Those physical sports will never be banned and even if the players have helmets there is still the chance of a concussion.
Mike and Dee
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