In April 2018, the NFL and the NFL Players Association (NFLPA) announced the results of an annual study to assess the laboratory performance of football helmets worn by NFL players. The results of the ...

Swedish helmet Protection specialist company Mips is always in the business of safety first. When it comes to the creation of a motorcycle helmet, however, the new gadget – despite often boasting new ...

It’s what a Virginia Tech athletics equipment manager asked Stefan Duma, a faculty member at the university’s department of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics, in 2009. Duma’s team had been working ...

Steve Rowson remembers the day he was first asked about helmets. An engineering student at Virginia Tech (VT) in Blacksburg, Virginia, at the time, Rowson and a few of his classmates were approached ...

BLACKSBURG, Va. – Plenty of people have been hitting the slopes this winter and Virginia Tech is researching ways to make it safer for you. The Virginia Tech Helmet Lab is taking a closer look at the ...

MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — The Virginia Tech Helmet Lab will expand beyond sports for the first time by developing a ratings system for safety helmets this summer. According to a press release by ...

BLACKSBURG, Va. (WRIC) — A lab at Virginia Tech has released a report that show some pricey helmets designed to protect whitewater rafters are not as effective as some that are more economical. They ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BLACKSBURG, Va. (WFXR) Anyone working in Virginia Tech’s helmet lab is committed to helping athletes of the future minimize the ...

The NFL, in collaboration with the NFLPA, through their respective appointed biomechanical experts, coordinated extensive laboratory research to evaluate which helmets best reduce head impact ...