Virginia Tech has been researching helmet safety for almost ten years now in an unbiased manner and rating them according to their safety.
“The helmet ratings are the culmination of over 10 years of research on head impacts in sports and identify which helmets best reduce concussion risk,” says Virginia Tech on its website. “This work is done as part of Virginia Tech’s service mission and is 100% independent of any funding or influence from helmet manufacturers.”
The university rates the helmets for a few reasons. Any helmet sold in the US satisfies a minimum safety requirement, but not all are created equal in the amount of safety they provide. This is why in the past several years, so many different brands have either licensed MIPS or other concussion reduction systems, or created their own. Last July, we looked at seven different technologies that are meant to reduce rotational forces during a crash.
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