Students create reactive showing Paraplegic Suit athletes when they are injured

The one thing athletes with disabilities struggle with is assessing the severity of the injuries obtained while playing sports. It becomes especially problematic for people who are paralyzed from the waist down and play sports like basketball wheelchair, sit skiing, car racing and several others that come in contact with other players or objects, resulting in a physical trauma or internal injuries. Internal injuries often give no visible warning, and if the athlete can not feel the impact because of pain or paralysis, do not even know they are injured. This can be dangerous because it can bleed to death or have other serious life-threatening consequences if his injury is not treated during or immediately after the game.

To combat this problem, a team of students from Imperial College London has developed a prototype suit reactive allowing people paralyzed from the waist down to identify impact / physical injuries immediately and assess the severity of those injuries are. The pants include pockets of different areas that have a removable film strip reactive pressure. Each time the impact occurs to the area where the strip is placed, impact is recorded in the form of a patch of magenta. Superior impact, the greater the intensity of the color of the stain. This does two things - firstly, the athlete immediately that have a lesion is reported, and second, the intensity and color can help design experts analyze the type of injury is the athlete. (Different types of injuries have different patterns / bloom on the strip)

At the end of the day, this game gives comfort to the athletes, coaches and support staff.