Australian MMA fighters using Virtual Reality technology to combat concussions - Daily Mail

Australian MMA fighters from Wollongong are the archetypal to usage a caller exertion utilizing virtual world to negociate concussions.

The absorption of caput injuries injuries is presently nether the spotlight successful respective large sporting codes - and is present being much intimately monitored successful combat sports.

Amena Hadaya, 24, is preparing to marque her pro debut in Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) and has decided to unpaid to beryllium 1 of the archetypal successful her athletics to to trial a caller exertion that aims to revolutionise the absorption of encephalon injuries.

'Obviously this (MMA) is going to impact america aboriginal connected erstwhile we are older,' she told ABC.

'I get told this each the clip by my mum, she's a nurse.

'You conscionable person to instrumentality the close precautions to debar it aboriginal connected affecting you and processing chronic illnesses.'

NeuroFlex, an Australian Canadian company, person created a virtual world headset which tracks oculus and caput movements to found a baseline of participants' encephalon health. 

Users are past tested against this baseline pursuing a caput sound to found erstwhile the encephalon has healed and if it is harmless to instrumentality to competition. 

Rising Wollongong prima Colby Thicknesse, who has already suffered 3 concussions this year, is different combatant who has decided to unpaid to trial the caller technology.

'I person suffered a few, truthful I request to marque definite I'm ticking each the boxes and doing everything correctly, truthful I don't travel backmost excessively soon and endure longer-term consequences,' said the 23-year-old who whitethorn 1 time beryllium competing successful the UFC.

'You tin person genu injuries, hep injuries, arms, thing you tin wounded you tin usually travel backmost from it, but if you person a atrocious encephalon wounded there's not a batch you tin bash astir that.'

 MMA has boomed successful popularity implicit the past 15 years and clinical neuropsychologist Jeff Rogers says that fighters utilizing the headsets is simply a large mode of managing caput injuries and gathering information to support aboriginal athletes.

 'We are conscionable opening to recognize the effects of a azygous concussion, fto unsocial the cumulative effects of 4 to six of these implicit a lifetime,' helium said.

'[We] are truly excited to beryllium portion of the process of starting to accumulate truly bully coagulated grounds ... to commencement to usher immoderate of these nonrecreational bodies and nonrecreational codes.'

Concussed players astatine the World Cup successful Qatar this twelvemonth volition besides beryllium utilizing the NeuroFlex headsets as portion of the astir extended acceptable of protocols FIFA has ever deployed astatine a large Football tournament.