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Low Cost Head Impact Alert System for Helmeted Sports

Award Information
Agency: Department of Health and Human Services
Branch: National Institutes of Health
Contract: 2R44HD061224-04
Agency Tracking Number: R44HD061224
Amount: $1,058,524.00
Phase: Phase II
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: NICHD
Solicitation Number: PA13-234
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2014
Award Year: 2014
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): N/A
Award End Date (Contract End Date): N/A
Small Business Information
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Lebanon, NH 03766-1604
United States
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Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 RICHARD GREENWALD
 (603) 448-2367
 rgreenwald@simbex.com
Business Contact
 RICHARD GREENWALD
Phone: (603) 448-2367
Email: rgreenwald@simbex.com
Research Institution
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Abstract

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Center for Disease Control (CDC) estimates the yearly incidence of mild Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI) at approximately 1.2 million cases in the United States alone. Approximately 1/3 of these injuries occur in football. The Principal Objective of this NIH Phase IIb SBIR project is to expand the utility of the current, and now commercially available, InSite impact alert monitoring system developed in Phase I/Phase II to integrate long-term player specific head impactexposure tracking for identifying both at- risk impacts (i.e. on-field alerting) and high-risk behavior (i.e. poor tackling technique). Brain injur is difficult to see , particularly on the field. We have successfully developed a sideline tool that can identify atypical impacts or series of impacts in the field that can be used to trigger management of concussion on the sideline. What is currently lacking is the ability to identify high-risk behavior that may eventually lead to concussion. The propose

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