It's not brain surgery or rocket science. But we had both.
From the pioneering 1940s research of Colonel John Paul Stapp - the U.S. Air Force flight surgeon known as the "human crash test dummy" for his rocket sled deceleration experiments - to a curious neurosurgeon moonlighting as a boxing referee, the Prevent Instrumented Mouthguard (iMG) is the culmination of years of intensive development by a team of doctors, engineers, and NASA-trained mathematicians.
The technology itself was conceived at the world-renowned Cleveland Clinic, where the first research prototype was fabricated and its accuracy validated in a historic peer-reviewed study. Prevent Biometrics was formed in 2015 to take head impact monitoring from the lab to the playing field.
More than a decade of development later, advances in flexible circuitry, electronics miniaturization, wireless communication, and algorithmic modeling have made possible a breakthrough wearable device that changes the game - and makes it safer.
Today, Prevent is the most independently validated head impact monitoring system on the market.
See for yourselfMake the invisible measurable.
Protecting the life-changing benefit of sport.
Prevent was founded to be a positive solution to the safety problems associated with head impacts at all levels of sport. We're applying first-of-its-kind wearable technology to measure head impacts as they happen, giving coaches, parents, and medical practitioners the data they need to help athletes play safely.