With concussion and head injury in sport the subject of increasing focus and research, professional mountain bikers will become the first to use a pioneering device to monitor head impact and its long term repercussions. Several of the world’s top riders will start the new season with the HIT device, which monitors the G-force of a head impact, attached to their helmets. The technology also measures the smaller cumulative impacts experienced by riders on runs, even when they don’t crash, similar to the effect on a footballer regularly heading a ball over the course of a match. Developed in Scotland, the unit connects to an app which provides a traffic light warning system. As concussions can be hard and complicated to … Continue reading New head impact technology to help tackle concussions in sport