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<blockquote data-quote="smartcooky" data-source="post: 861999" data-attributes="member: 20605"><p>And this is absolutely key.</p><p></p><p>We can make all the muscles and sinews stronger through training regimes, and we can strengthen bone mass through supplements and minerals to make the athlete faster, fitter stronger and more resilient, but there is absolutely nothing we can do to the human body to increase an athlete's protection against brain injury, because the brain sits inside a bone casing and is free to move around.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>In 1982, a British polymer scientist, Dr Maurice Hiles, invented a product which revolutionised the sport of athletics because it offered athletes protection against the worst harmful effects of running; planar facilitis, achilles and IT band tendonitis, chin splints and runner's knee, all of which were caused by the constant impact of the feet and lower legs with the road.</p><p></p><p>That product was a synthetic <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viscoelasticity" target="_blank">visco-elastic</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyurethane" target="_blank">urethane</a> polymer made from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyol" target="_blank">polyol</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isocyanate" target="_blank">isocyanate; it was better known under its trade name of </a>"sorbothane". It is going to take the invention of something like this that will do for the head, what Dr Hiles' invention did for the feet before there is ever going to be a technological solution to the current concussion problems in contact sports.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="smartcooky, post: 861999, member: 20605"] And this is absolutely key. We can make all the muscles and sinews stronger through training regimes, and we can strengthen bone mass through supplements and minerals to make the athlete faster, fitter stronger and more resilient, but there is absolutely nothing we can do to the human body to increase an athlete's protection against brain injury, because the brain sits inside a bone casing and is free to move around. In 1982, a British polymer scientist, Dr Maurice Hiles, invented a product which revolutionised the sport of athletics because it offered athletes protection against the worst harmful effects of running; planar facilitis, achilles and IT band tendonitis, chin splints and runner's knee, all of which were caused by the constant impact of the feet and lower legs with the road. That product was a synthetic [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viscoelasticity']visco-elastic[/URL] [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyurethane']urethane[/URL] polymer made from [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyol']polyol[/URL] and [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isocyanate']isocyanate; it was better known under its trade name of [/URL]"sorbothane". It is going to take the invention of something like this that will do for the head, what Dr Hiles' invention did for the feet before there is ever going to be a technological solution to the current concussion problems in contact sports. [/QUOTE]
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