ND Tests New Mouthguard

[Grahambo]

Apologies if this has been posted before. Feel free to remove this thread and berate me like I'm Reggie Bush who just bought a home in South Bend.

Notre Dame football tests smart mouthguards | Crave - CNET

Article is from July 31st but basically says that 22 specifically chosen ND players will wear these new mouthguards that will allow data to be collected to help with research with head injuries.

A good, quick read.

 

[BeauBenken]

That's interesting. Thanks for the post.

 

[PigtownIrish]

Hi-tech mouthguards with flashing shamrock grills. Not even Oregon is doing this...

 

[Pops Freshenmeyer]

Interestingly, or not, Notre Dame was at the forefront with introducing the use of mouth guards in college football.

A five-year clinical study on Notre Dame football players began in 1958 and was published in 1964. With the encouragement of then trainer Gene Paszkiet, a decision was made to equip the entire Notre Dame football team with ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA - see below) mouthguards.

 

[Big23Head]

Here's what the actual mouthguard looks like.

Stanford gridders using tech wonder for concussion research

 

[meowmix]

I hope Luck's mouthguard gets them a metric $hitton of big hit data

 

[ndfi78]

I hope Luck's mouthguard gets them a metric $hitton of big hit data

Me too sir, me too!

 

[PJWhitfield]

Good links and thanks.