Dr. Julian Bailes on the Science Behind the Q-Collar
It’s not always about the big hit or the clearly diagnosed concussion. Repeated hits to the head, even smaller impacts, called sub-concussive hits, have been shown to result in structural changes to an athlete’s brain over the course of a season. The Q-Collar helps to protect the brain from these structural changes as a result of both big and small hits.Hear from Dr. Julian Bailes, Chairman of Neurosurgery at Northshore University Hospital, as he discusses how the Q-Collar helps to prevent brain injury caused by repetitive head impacts.The Q-Collar is the only sports equipment proven to help protect the brain. The Q-Collar is intended for athletes aged 13+
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00:00 The human brain floats inside this bath of fluid called cerebrospinal fluid, and that
00:06 allows it to have movement.
00:08 Brain slosh is the brain's ability to move inside the skull.
00:12 When there's a blow to the head or when the head suddenly stops, the brain is able to
00:17 move forward and backwards and maybe reverberate a second time, hitting the inside of the skull,
00:23 and the fibers of the brain are more prone to being injured when the head rotates.
00:29 Internal protection is naturally limited, and we knew that the brain's ability to move
00:35 inside the skull is perhaps the major reason traumatic brain injury occurs.
00:40 The Q collar is intended to go around the neck and then have two areas which gently
00:47 compress the internal jugular vein on either side.
00:51 And what this does is cause an instantaneous increase in the blood volume inside the head,
00:58 and that appears then to significantly reduce the brain's ability to move inside the skull.
01:04 We used to think if you didn't have a known or diagnosed concussion, then probably nothing
01:10 happened to the brain, but now we think that there are instances where repetitive blows
01:16 to the head that don't reach the diagnosis of a concussion or a recognized concussion
01:21 can in some cases have bad consequences.
01:25 And someone who's exposed through their sport to multiple head impacts.
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