“It’s not the skull you’re protecting, it’s the brain inside the skull,” Myer said. “The brain already has a helmet, it’s called a skull. So you have to find a way to reduce that movement inside.”
Myer appeared on CNN earlier this week to talk about the device.
Myer played college football and is an advocate for the sport, despite the high number of concussions suffered by football players. A national injury survey estimates that there were about 160,000 in prep football last year.
“We know the No. 4 killer worldwide is physical inactivity,” Myer said. “Sports create a mechanism. If we start in football where does it stop? Do we stop playing any sport that puts a kid at risk for touching another kid?“
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