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H.S. Football Team Wears New Helmet Sensors to Fight against Concussions

Yolanda Harris: The battle to detect and even prevent sports-related concussions has never been more intense and last year we showed you. We tested an impact sensor designed to alert trainers if a player is hit hard enough well today for the first time met sensor made its way abc6 is Adam arrow shows us who's using it and how it works.

Adam Aaro: kickoff for Madison plains high school is still a month away so in preparation a fitting.

Player 1: its football you just love it.

Adam Aaro: for what's hopefully to come.

Player 2: we just never really been a powerhouse in football, I feel like this is our year.

Coach: we want to be invested we will be the most invested team around and I think the kids are buying into it and I'm getting great effort every single day.

Adam Aaro: in this season the Eagles will fly we want to take the concussion issue and make it and make it something the kids take seriously with an extra watchful eye.

Danny Crossman: it's a long-range Bluetooth sensor.

Adam Aaro: we first told you about and tested shock box sensors early last year.

Danny Crossman: it goes in here in between the plans where that little black strip of Velcro.

Adam Aaro: Danny Crossman is the company's co-founder he says the sensors detect the level of gravitational or g-force.

Danny Crossman: when you get a hit.

Adam Aaro: and if the impact is violent enough the sensor sends a message to a coach or trainer’s phone or tablet.

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Telling them to check that player for concussion symptoms.

Danny Crossman:  what we're trying to do is prevent a play going back out into the field already symptomatic.

Adam Aaro: Madison plains is the first football team in Ohio to use the sensors an alumnus paid for the devices which cost a hundred and fifty dollars a piece.

Coach: realistically that's they're not going to make a living playing football what they are going to make a living at is using the Rings and we're going to protect them.

Adam Aaro: in Madison plains Adam arrow abc6 news.

Yolanda Harris: A new study by Nationwide Children's Hospital shows that high school lacrosse players are at risk for concussions as well more than twenty two percent of the injuries tracked between two thousand eight and 2012 were concussions and that makes it the second most common injury diagnosis behind sprains and strains also included in the study almost twenty five percent of concussions in girls lacrosse or because of person-to-person contact despite that kind of contact being prohibited in girl lacrosse.

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