{"id":26958,"date":"2016-06-16T11:48:55","date_gmt":"2016-06-16T18:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/new-neck-collar-may-protect-players-from-brain-injuries"},"modified":"2017-06-04T19:55:53","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T02:55:53","slug":"new-neck-collar-may-protect-players-from-brain-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/new-neck-collar-may-protect-players-from-brain-injuries","title":{"rendered":"New neck collar may protect players from brain injuries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-neck-collar-may-protect-players-from-brain-injuries.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong> Wearing a specifically designed compression collar around the neck may prevent or reduce the devastating effects of head collisions in sports, two new studies have found.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The neck device, called a Q-Collar, is designed to press gently on the jugular vein to slow blood outflow increasing the brain\u2019s blood volume, according to researchers from Cincinnati Children\u2019s Hospital Medical Centre in the US.<\/p>\n<p>The resulting effect of the increased blood volume helps the brain fit tighter within the skull cavity, reducing the energy absorbed by the brain during collisions, researchers said.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deccanherald.com\/content\/552637\/neck-collar-may-protect-players.html\">http:\/\/www.deccanherald.com\/content\/552637\/neck-collar-may-protect-players.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wearing a specifically designed compression collar around the neck may prevent or reduce the devastating effects of head collisions in sports, two new studies have found. The neck device, called a Q-Collar, is designed to press gently on the jugular vein to slow blood outflow increasing the brain\u2019s blood volume, according to researchers from Cincinnati [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26958"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67175,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26958\/revisions\/67175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}