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Independent studies using smart mouthguard data sheds light on rugby like never before

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Harrow School pioneer use of Head Impact Monitoring Mouthguards from Prevent Biometrics & OPRO

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World Rugby integrates smart mouthguard technology to the Head Injury Assessment as part of new phase of global player welfare measures

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Guardian Exclusive: World Rugby to adopt ‘gamechanging’ G-force tech to flag major head impacts

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Prevent Biometrics & OPRO Partner to Support the Expanding Demand For Head Impact Monitoring Mouthguards

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November 7, 2023

Independent studies using smart mouthguard data sheds light on rugby like never before

World Rugby Chairman Sir Bill Beaumont has welcomed results from the largest ever studies into the forces experienced in-game by rugby players. Independent, peer-reviewed studies shows 86 per cent of...

Drew Goodger

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October 31, 2023

Harrow School pioneer use of Head Impact Monitoring Mouthguards from Prevent Biometrics & OPRO

The collaboration is helping Harrow School add further welfare initiatives to its continuous commitment to player health and student experiences Tuesday 31st October - Prevent Biometrics and OPRO, providers of...

Karl Hogan

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October 9, 2023

World Rugby integrates smart mouthguard technology to the Head Injury Assessment as part of new phase of global player welfare measures

World Rugby investing an initial €2 million in smart mouthguard technology which will provide in-game alerts to independent pitch-side doctors WXV to debut the technology and approach in October and...

Karl Hogan

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October 8, 2023

Guardian Exclusive: World Rugby to adopt ‘gamechanging’ G-force tech to flag major head impacts

Rugby union is to become the world’s first sport to use technology to automatically withdraw players with a suspected brain injury from the field of play, the Guardian can reveal....

Karl Hogan

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August 8, 2023

Prevent Biometrics & OPRO Partner to Support the Expanding Demand For Head Impact Monitoring Mouthguards

The partnership combines Prevent's market leading Head Impact Monitoring Technology with OPRO's globally renowned mouthguard manufacturing capabilities. 8th August 2023- Prevent Biometrics, provider of the world’s most independently validated head...

Drew Goodger

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July 21, 2022

Prevent Biometrics Announces Erik Lund As Vice President, of Rugby

Sports Tech Industry Expert Will Help Prevent Biometrics Expand Operationally and Commercially The globally experienced commercial leader joins to drive the growth of Instrumented Mouthguards (“iMGs”) throughout Rugby at all...

Drew Goodger

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June 9, 2022

Prevent Biometrics welcomes Karl Hogan to its Advisory Board, to drive global commercial growth and scale business operations

Sports Tech Industry Expert Will Help Prevent Biometrics Expand Operationally and Commercially MINNEAPOLIS (JUNE 09, 2022) -- Prevent Biometrics, which developed the industry-leading instrumented mouthguard used across sports globally, announced...

Tori Everson

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March 22, 2022

UBC Concussion Study

UBC concussion study could pave the way for safer hockey. Read the full article

Tori Everson

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March 14, 2022

Minnetonka Youth Football

Minnetonka youth football program approves impact monitoring mouthguards for players Read the full article

Tori Everson

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February 23, 2022

Series B Fundraising

Prevent Biometrics, Developer of Smart Mouthguards to Study Head Impacts, Raises $5 Million Read the full article

Tori Everson

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January 19, 2022

ASM Rugby

ASM Conducts Rugby Study Using Prevent Biometrics Technology Read full article

Tori Everson

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January 5, 2022

Panthronics Powers Prevent Biometrics 2.0 Development

Panthronics' powers Prevent Biometric's 2.0 development Throughout the past 18 months, Prevent’s team of world-class engineers have carefully innovated and developed a new flex circuit board, the Prevent V2 (Version2.0)....

Tori Everson

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November 18, 2021

UTSA Football

UTSA Conducts Football Head Impact Research Read full article here

Tori Everson

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November 1, 2021

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Conducts Head Impact Study Read full article

Tori Everson

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October 30, 2021

Black Ferns Head Impact Study

Black Ferns, New Zealand Rugby Lead the Way in Women's Brain Health With concussion in Women’s World Rugby under a spotlight, the World Champion Black Ferns have partnered with Prevent...

Tori Everson

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October 29, 2021

Southland Stags

NPC Southland Leverages Prevents Technology Read full article

Tori Everson

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October 27, 2021

Otago Rugby & Prevent Biometrics

The Purpose Behind Otago Rugby Partnering with Prevent Biometrics to Conduct Head Impact Study Read full article

Tori Everson

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September 22, 2021

New World Rugby Guidelines

Prevent Biometrics Helping Implement New Guidelines for Rugby Contact Training Load Read full article

Tori Everson

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September 10, 2021

82nd Airborne

82nd Airborne Division Teams Up with Prevent Biometrics to Monitor Soldier Welfare Read full article

Tori Everson

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August 30, 2021

IU Football Research

IU Research Tackling Youth Football Head Impacts Read full article

Tori Everson

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May 31, 2021

Otago Community Study

Prevent Biometrics Drives Athlete Safety Across All Levels of Community Rugby Read full article

Tori Everson

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April 5, 2021

World Rugby Selects Prevent Biometrics as Head Impact Monitoring System of Choice

Minneapolis, MN - Late last week World Rugby announced a groundbreaking player welfare study through an innovative partnership with New Zealand Rugby, University of Otago, and Prevent Biometrics. The primary initiative...

Drew Goodger

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March 13, 2021

RFL Instruments Prevent Mouthguards

RFL Confirms Launch of Extensive Research Project in 2022 Season. The RFL has doubled-down on their commitment to expand head impact monitoring throughout the elite and community level of rugby...

Tori Everson

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January 6, 2021

Leeds Rhinos and Prevent Biometrics Team Up To Tackle Collision Research

Minneapolis, MN - Through an innovative partnership Prevent Biometrics and Leeds Rhinos teamed up in 2020 to quantify collision exposure in Super League Rugby matches. The goal of this partnership was...

Drew Goodger

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January 5, 2021

Leeds Rhinos

Leeds Rhinos' Study on Collision in Sport Read full article

Tori Everson

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December 16, 2020

Why Head Impact Data Is Important In College Athletics

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Minnesota-based sports tech startup Prevent Biometrics today announced three key hires to its science and engineering teams…

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December 2, 2020

Prevent Biometrics Receives Highest Mark of Validation From Virginia Tech Researchers

Annals of Biomedical Engineering- 12.2.20 Minneapolis, MN - In an attempt to quantify the accuracy of commercially available head impact monitoring systems, top researchers at Virginia Tech recently performed a...

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November 8, 2020

Prevent Biometrics Leads Ground Breaking Concussion Biomechanics Study

Annals of Biomedical Engineering- 11.8.20 Minneapolis, MN - Millions participate yearly in contact sports in the United States. Hundreds of thousands of these athletes sustain concussions yet due to subjective symptom...

Drew Goodger