GAME CHANGER
WHAT if you could know straightaway whether an athlete had a head injury? After sustaining an impact what if you could get an instant diagnosis of its potential for concussion? It would revolutionise contact sports. It would change the conversation about athlete safety. You might say it would save boxing.
With breakthroughs in technology, that future is possible. The Protecht mouthguard, developed by a company called Sports & Wellbeing Analytics, could be that game changer. It’s being used in rugby and other sports, and is being tested in boxing. Doctor Mike Loosemore is working on the project. Loosemore is a highly credible figure. He’s been the doctor for the GB boxing team for 24 years. As well as being Lead Sports Physician at the English Institute of Sport, he has been the chief medical officer for Team GB overall at an Olympics.
“This could be the future of boxing and improve the safety in boxing and help boxers not get as badly injured during boxing,” he tells Boxing News.
The mouthguard contains chips, a tri-axial accelerometer, the kind of technology that’s used in mobile phones to detect which way up they are, as well as a gyroscope that detects
