the effects of sub concussion is far greater in children. you can see it in severe cases. the recovery time is far, far longer. but edinburgh based company hit has come up with a piece of technology they think might tackle the problem by measuring how much impact an athlete sustains to the head when taking part in sport. i went to their lab at heriot watt university to see their final stages of testing. and what we re doing is we re basically calibrating the accelerometer that s in the back of the head in the hit device to give us a really good indication of kind of how sensitive the accelerometer is and if we need to maybe alter that or if it s all good to go. would that be kind of the equivalent of the sort of impacts people might be getting in a real world situation, or are you sort of going beyond that? so what we re doing here, the 60 gs is our threshold impact. what we would do there is put an adult rugby player, or an adult, anyone that s
sensitive the accelerometer is and if we need to maybe alter that or if it s all good to go. would that be kind of the equivalent of the sort of impacts people might be getting in a real world situation, or are you sort of going beyond that for this test? so what we re doing here, the 60 gs is our threshold impact. it s what we would do for an adult rugby player, or an adult, anyone that s not wearing a helmet, and that is risky, it s dangerous. we want you to be checked out. for this one, you re seeing that movement down, the bang of the head similar to if you were to get whiplash with your head off the ground. godspeed, mr head. three, two, one. that looks pretty dramatic. so you ve got the numbers for that? we ve got the numbers here. so you re seeing the impact. we re seeing the impact. we are able to count all of your impacts in a traffic light system. obviously 9 gs, anything up to 20 at the moment, is deemed safe. amber is when it s getting
the 60 gs is our threshold impact. what we would do there is put an adult rugby player, or an adult, anyone that s not wearing a helmet, and that is risky and it s dangerous. we want you to be checked out. for this one, you are seeing that movement down, the band of the head similar to when you get whiplash with your head off the ground. godspeed, mr head. three, two, one. that looks pretty dramatic. so you ve got the numbers there? we ve got the numbers here. you re seeing the impact. so you re seeing the impacts. we are able to count all of your impacts in a traffic light system. 0bviously 9 gs, anything up to 20 at the moment, is deemed safe. amber is when it s getting a bit risky and red, we want you to get off and get checked out for any symptoms. seeing it in the lab brings home how hard these impacts actually are, and how we overlook them in the speed of the game. it s certainly not something i would want to happen to my head.
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i went to their lab at heriot watt university to see their final stages of testing. and what we re doing is we re basically calibrating the accelerometer that s in the back of the head in the hit device to give us a really good indication of kind of how sensitive the accelerometer is and if we need to maybe alter that or if it s all good to go. would that be kind of the equivalent of the sort of impacts people might be getting in a real world situation, or are you sort of going beyond that? so what we re doing here, the 60 gs is our threshold impact. what we would do there is put an adult rugby player, or an adult, anyone that s not wearing a helmet, and that is risky and it s dangerous. we want you to be checked out. for this one, you are seeing that movement down, the band of the head similar to when you get whiplash for this one, you are seeing that movement down, the bang of the head similar to when you get whiplash with your head off the ground. godspeed, mr head. three, two, one.