Women’s World Cup, the special collar that protects the brain: how it works – Corriere.it

The only verified device that can protect the brain. It looks like this on the official website the Q30, which is a special collar which passed within a few days from an unknown device – at least in Europe – to being an interesting horseshoe-shaped concentrate of science.

He immediately noticed this Q-Collar surely those who watched Canada and Costa Rica’s matches at the Women’s World Cup in New Zealand and Australia. In particular two footballers (Canadian Rebecca Quinn and Costa Rican Raquel Rodriguez) have worn this device. The question arose spontaneously: what is it for?

The Q-Collar succeeds in protect the brain from damage caused by repeated impacts to the head which can alter brain tissue. As? Through partial compression of the jugular vein because this slight crushing reduces damage to brain neurons and axons (key indicators of brain injury), explain the doctors who designed the collar. It is defined as a safe, effective and revolutionary device. Even for quite recent, despite the 25 preclinical and clinical studies carried out before approval and release on the market. On February 26, 2021 for the Q-Collar which also became the first and only FDA approved device (Food and Drug Administration, organization responsible for protecting public health in the United States) to reduce traumatic brain injury.

This is therefore the objective of the collar to which more and more sportsmen rely by now, most of whom practice disciplines such as lacrosse, American football, hockey; all famous sports practiced more overseas than in Europe, in fact the

L Q-Collar currently only available in the United States and Canada. But sure? Many such questions have also been asked on social networks, but on the official website of the Q-Collar the team of doctors and researchers reassured those who were perplexed by specifying that there is no statistical risk to the body in wearing the collar and there is no interference with performance, movement and endurance. However, skepticism soon gave way only to so much curiosity on the part of spectators interested in the women’s World Cup and in this small marriage between science and sport which – for the moment overseas – is also starting to take hold in the world of football.