I just so happened to have left the television on while writing my articles late one night early this week when something on the news happened to catch my eye—or my ear, rather. It was a short news piece about a new approach to protecting the brain against traumatic brain injury due to sloshing, and I find it utterly fascinating, and potentially revolutionary. I hope that you do as well.
The concept is actually a rather simple one: a collar that one wears around the neck, which compresses the jugular, reducing blood flow from the brain, and thus adding more volume inside the cranium—and less space in which the brain can slosh around.