Systems and methods for monitoring a physiological parameter of persons engaged in physical activity

Abstract

The present disclosure provides system and method for monitoring of at least one physiological parameter of a person engaged in a physical activity, for example, an impact received by a player engaged in a contact sport such as football. The system includes a monitoring unit that actively monitors the physiological parameter of the person, wherein the monitoring unit generates an alert event when the monitored physiological parameter exceeds a threshold of the parameter. The monitoring unit determines whether the parameter exceeds an over-exposure threshold, wherein said threshold is based upon both a single incidence or cumulative incidences.

Description

[0001] Priority claims under 35 U.S.C. §119 [0002] This patent application requires Provisional Application No. 61 / 530,282, filed September 1, 2011, entitled "SYSTEMS & METHOD FOR MONITORING A PHYSIOLOGICAL PARAMETER OF PERSONS ENGAGED IN PHYSICAL ACTIVITY," and filed September 9, 2011, entitled Priority to Provisional Application No. 61 / 533,038 for "SYSTEMS & METHOD FOR MONITORING A PHYSIOLOGICAL PARAMETER OF PERSONS ENGAGED IN PHYSICAL ACTIVITY," both assigned to the assignee of this application, is hereby expressly incorporated by reference. technical field [0003] The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for monitoring at least one physiological parameter of a person engaging in physical activity (eg, impacts received by players engaging in a contact sport such as soccer). Background technique [0004] Attention has been paid to brain injuries due to head impacts in various contact sports such as football, hockey and ice hockey. During such physical acti...

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Problems solved by technology

Commercial implementation of such an array in a helmet or helmet-mounted system is impractical from a size, cost, and complexity standpoint

[0015] Obviously, when testing with an instrumented test mannequin head, it is not easy to fit an array of accelerometers for measuring linear and rotational acceleration or pressure / force transducers for measuring pressure or force inside the human head of

Other sensing technologies such as gyroscopes, magnetohydrodynamic angular rate sensors, and GPS sensors are currently unable to achieve practical specifications for commercial systems

Additionally, using a multi-axis accelerometer system placed inside a mouth guard is impractical for a number of reasons including, but not limited to: placing the mouth guard's battery in the user's mouth requires Power sent from the mouth exceeds FCC limits, any of these reasons could be dangerous to players and limit their cooperation

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