Virginia Tech Concussion Researcher Takes Proactive Approach To Concussions

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Virginia Tech Researcher is making Noise in the Sports Industry

 He has developed a very specific program that he says strengthens rarely used muscles in the neck and back of the head. Muscles that can be developed and keep the brain from being tossed around while playing nearly any sport.

 Dr. Cornwell has developed a very specific program that he says strengthens rarely used muscles in the neck and back of the head. Muscles that can be developed and keep the brain from being tossed around while playing nearly any sport.

Dr. Cornwell's Protocol is the only researched and evidence based contingency available to prepare athletes for the rigors of their sport.

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Small Beginnings Lead to Large Results

The best of ideas started  as a simple notion of how to do something better or more efficiently.

When two individuals join their ideas collectively, sometimes it can  result in something Big.

If those ideas come to fruition it can be paradigm shifting.

The NEW HEAD AND NECK MACHINE WILL CHANGE THE WAY WE LOOK AT CONCUSSION REDUCTION FOREVER.

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 Looking Back.

Clinical Research Takes Time to Complete.   This Blog was Written Three Years Ago. The research process is complicated and must be approved by several organizations, The National Institute of Health and may need to be approved by at least One Institutional Review Board. 
If this type of rigor and validity is not incorporated into a True Research Study. It is not a study at all. It is opinion, conjecture or just a good guess. There is only One Evidence Based Head and Neck Training Protocol.
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Ralph Cornwell
 
Undergrad From University of Maryland/Radford University Va
Masters of Science from Virginia Tech
Doctor of Philosophy -Science Virginia Tech Completion Date 12/10

Former Strength Coach
Radford University
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
United States Military Academy at West Point
North Carolina Agriculture and Technology State University
West Montgomery High School, NC

Served as Sport Performance Director and Owner of 2 Sports Performance Facilities 1 in Blacksburg, Va, the other in Greensboro, NC.


I have been training on Pendulum 5-way neck for about a month and have had remarkable results. The weight has steadily gone up on the exercises, but the amazing thing is my neck circumference has increased by an inch and a half.

Never gotten those types of results from any neck machine and I have tryed them all. I am currently preparing for my Ph.D. case study which involves the question: If you increase the circumference of the neck through resistance training and increase the stiffness ratio,as soft tissue becomes stronger, along with trapezius strength increases thus reducing the deformation rate during contact(impact) would you not decrease impact forces to the head, neck area and transfer or dissipate the forces throughout the trapezius,upper back muscles and ultimately have those forces absorbed through the stronger back muscles, hip/glute area transferring those forces finally to the much stronger lower body muscles.
Also, would this not help to reduce or lessen the rate of concussion or more importantly would it not lower the subconcussive forces of small impacts that seem to cause as much or more long term damage to the athlete. Would a bigger stronger neck not raise the tipping point in which we start to see real long-term brain damage, Well, that's what I intend to find out. I will be setting up my lab at the Virginia Tech campus where I am completing my Ph.D..
The pendulum neck machine will be an intricate part of the case study and I want to share the data with all the coaches out their so we can better protect our athletes from harm. We cant' forget it all starts with the neck. The vulnerable part of the human anatomy with respect to contact sports or life in general is our cervical spine which supports the skull which incases our most important component with regards to life -our brain.

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Let's Spring Into Action And Protect Athletes                                              
Ralph Cornwell is a Ph.D. candidate in health promotion/human performance at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Prior to pursuing his Doctoral Degree he was a collegiate strength coach.

Research from the best minds in the automotive safety industry  all agree, the circumference of the neck changes the way it reacts to forces applied to that area.
The former Congressional appointed Chairman of the Head  and Neck Committee put together a study on concussions and found: " Stronger necks reduce head acceleration, deltaV, and displacement. Even relatively small reductions in deltaV have a large effect on head injury criterion that may reduce concussion risks because changes in deltaV change head injury criterion through the 4th power."
Test dummies are used to simulate a human in a collision whether it is by automobile or playing sports.


How do they simulate neck strength in humans?

They change the size of the spring on the test dummies. Small to replicate a child’s neck circumference.  Medium size for female adults and large for adult males.

To simulate an athlete’s neck you have to go one step further.  The athlete’s neck is simulated by the largest and most stiff spring on a crash dummy in order to replicate the kinematics of a collision accurately.


The replicated athletic neck is more resistant to change than the mock-up normal population neck.  It  deforms less then all the simulated necks.


This is true for crash test dummies; is it not true for athletes playing sports that include collisions?
By increasing the circumference of our athlete’s necks the same result should occur. Less deformation of the cervical spine.

If this is good for test dummies, it should be good for America’s athletes risking concussion during sports. It will certainly lowers the subconcussive forces.
 
Congress calls concussions an 'American Epidemic'. Let’s start inoculating our athletes with larger stronger necks.www.concussionpreventionprotocol.com

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YOU AS A Coach, Athletic Trainer, Strength Coach, Military Trainer, 


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Strengthening of the head, neck and surrounding cervical structures  is
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withstand potentially injurious forces. The only one!

The Concussion Rate in this Country continues to increase each Year!   The reactive approach simply DOES NOT WORK.  WE Must be Proactive. Through Evidence Based Research we Know We can Prepare our Athletes for the Rigors of Their Sport. 

THERE IS SIMPLY NO GOOD
REASON FOR NOT TRAINING THE MUSCLES SURROUNDING THE CERVICAL
SPINE. PERIOD!

Before you can Protect Your Athlete YOU need the skills to do so. You need to be Certified to train the musculature of the Head and Neck.

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          The most important goal of the strength & conditioning professional is to PRUDENTLY PREPARE the individual for the rigors of the task at hand. As such, given the catastrophic consequences of a cervical spine and traumatic brain injury, the strengthening of the neck and surrounding muscular structures of the cervical spine MUST be considered PRIORITY ONE in the prescription and design  of exercise routines.

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