

So do these helmets work? That's still being determined. Helmet design may never prevent all concussions from occurring in football, but the evidence illustrates that it can reduce the incidence of this injury. Helmet designs should be optimized to reduce head acceleration over the continuum of impacts experienced by football players. This exemplar comparison illustrates that differences in the ability to reduce concussion risk exist between helmet models in collegiate football. In a study by Virginia Tech-Wake Forest School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences department head Stefan Duma and others, published on the Journal of Neurosurgery's website this past January, extensive research showed that helmet design does play a factor in player safety:
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The full rollout of SpeedFlex with InSite is expected to be complete by the 2015 season. InSite will be available for the SpeedFlex in limited quantities in time for the 2014 season.

The helmet is designed to disperse energy, reducing the risk of trauma, while the InSite is intended to alert coaches when a player suffers a significant hit to the head, or multiple hits that combine to pose a risk. Several college football programs will be using the new Riddell SpeedFlex helmet and InSite Impact Response System in 2014. While the governing bodies claim to prioritize player safety, apparel companies ( and players themselves) are among those trying to find tangible solutions. The NCAA and several conferences face ongoing lawsuits over concussion issues. Football's brain injury problem has become one of several threats to the future of the college sport, and all other levels as well.
