NeuroShield

Your brain is the most important organ in your body and even though contact sports such as hockey or football are fun, they can be detrimental to your brain's health. To overcome this problem, brilliant team of neuroscientists and engineers inspired by nature, were able to create, test, and put on the market an affordable, slim neck brace that helps prevent concussions for hockey players and players of other contact sports. The creators of this innovation in sports protection looked to nature for inspiration. They wondered how the woodpecker is able to repeatedly thrust its head into a tree without harming itself and thought that if they could understand how this works, they will be able to use this information to create a product that would help prevent brain damage to contact sports players.

Brain damage is caused when the brain slams against the inside of the skull. The early solution to this was to create helmets that reduce the force going into the head upon contact. However, hits to the head still caused the brain to slam into the skull causing long-term effects such as CTE and concussions. To counteract this slamming of the brain into the skull, the NeuroShield works by stabilizing the brain by applying light pressure to the neck, similar to how a woodpecker's neck is like. The pressure on the neck creates more blood to go to the areas around the brain, in turn, creating less space for the brain to move within the skull. The NeuroSheild will help athletes stay healthy and dramatically decrease brain damage done to players of contact sports.



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https://neuroshield.ca/index.html