Rugby player develops device to track head trauma after teammate forced to quit sport

A kickstarter funding push has raised more than £6,000, Samuel Osborne writes

Samuel Osborne
Thursday 08 April 2021 06:51 BST
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Amateur rugby player Euan Bowen with his cycle helmet with HIT Impact technology
Amateur rugby player Euan Bowen with his cycle helmet with HIT Impact technology (HIT/PA)

A rugby player has developed a wearable device to monitor head trauma after a teammate was forced to stop playing the sport due to injury.

Euan Bowen, 28, played the game at university and in his final year in 2018, when a teammate suffered three concussion injuries in one season.

It spurred Mr Bowen to develop an idea for a device to track brain health into the HIT Impact technology, which detects g-force and records impact on an app.

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