Smart headband for brain health management in school and grassroots sport

用于学校和基层运动大脑健康管理的智能头带

• 批准号: 10043277
• 金额: $ 6.27万
• 依托单位: HEADX LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Grant for R&D
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10043277
• 关键词: Smart; headband; brain; health; management

Concussion, Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) is a growing issue in contact sport, with significant increase in former players being diagnosed with early onset dementia. This is a growing concern for players, coaches, sport clubs, schools and parents. The Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee produced a report in July 2021 highlighting these concerns.HeadX is developing a Smart Headband specifically designed to support players, teachers, coaches and parents in ensuring safe participation in grassroots contact sport. The smart headband is design a number of accelerometers and gyroscopes to accurately capture a players head movement 100 times a second. To date they have developed low volume, proof of concept prototypes that have been trialled at a local Gloucestershire Rugby club. The evidence from these trials provided excellent insight into the learning that can be gained from wearables and data analytics in developing our understanding of contact sports and brain health.This project provides an excellent opportunity to help teachers and coaches to "Recognise and Remove" any player that incurred brain trauma. It also help coach players to improve their technique and learn from objective data.Innovate UK grant funding will allow the team to further develop their prototype towards a Law 4 Innovation trial with World Rugby. The funding will significantly improve the design, size and comfort of the wearable device alongside developing the software to improve accessibility in a busy school rugby club environment. The software development will mean that a club can quickly download, analyse and learn from completed sessions.

脑震荡、创伤性脑损伤 (TBI) 和慢性创伤性脑病 (CTE) 是接触性运动中日益严重的问题，被诊断患有早发性痴呆的前运动员显着增加。这是球员、教练、体育俱乐部、学校和家长日益关注的问题。数字、文化、媒体和体育委员会于 2021 年 7 月发布了一份报告，强调了这些担忧。HeadX 正在开发一款智能头带，专门为支持运动员、教师、教练和家长确保安全参与基层接触运动而设计。智能头带设计了多个加速计和陀螺仪，可以准确捕捉玩家每秒100次的头部运动。迄今为止，他们已经开发出了小批量的概念验证原型，并已在当地格洛斯特郡橄榄球俱乐部进行了试用。这些试验的证据为我们从可穿戴设备和数据分析中获得的学习提供了极好的见解，以加深我们对接触运动和大脑健康的理解。该项目提供了一个绝佳的机会来帮助教师和教练“识别并删除”任何球员导致脑部受伤。它还可以帮助教练球员提高他们的技术并从客观数据中学习。创新英国拨款将使该团队能够进一步开发他们的原型，以与世界橄榄球协会进行 Law 4 创新试验。这笔资金将显着改善可穿戴设备的设计、尺寸和舒适度，同时开发软件以改善繁忙的学校橄榄球俱乐部环境中的可访问性。软件开发意味着俱乐部可以快速下载、分析已完成的课程并从中学习。