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High school footballers wearing special helmets to monitor brain injuries
As they root for the home team from their bleacher seats this fall, high school gridiron fans in the small Illinois town of Tolono won't see anything out of the ordinary on the field. But tucked inside many of the maroon helmets worn by the Unity High School Rockets, a revolution of sorts is taking place. This season, 32 varsity team members are sporting helmets outfitted with the same electronic encoder modules now used by a handful of college teams.
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