Plan to Close Athletes’ Brain Harm Wins FDA Nod
A straightforward-seeming neck collar will even be marketed to forestall brain hurt due to subconcussive head impacts in athletes, the FDA talked about Friday.
The Q-Collar is designed and sold by Q30 Enhancements of Westport, Connecticut. It be a compressive instrument that suits around the aspects and inspire of the neck. The premise in the inspire of it, in step with Q30, is to squeeze the jugular veins in this sort of blueprint as to form "a non permanent amplify in intracranial blood volume." This, in flip, "outcomes in a spread of the venous constructions inner the cranium," holding the brain "in a extra stable command" that's much less weak to "slo...