Many say he suffered a medical phenomenon called commotio cordis.
It was a tragedy that spurred research at the University of Western Ontario to better understand the condition and ways to prevent it.“[We] identified these potentially vulnerable impact locations over the chest that are currently being ignored by the current safety regulations and current chest protectors on the market,” said researcher Grant James.
James said they identified new metrics for safer sports equipment and hope their research spurs change. “In the last 10 years, it has improved; chest protectors have improved. They are still not 100 percent effective, so I really think that using the data and analysis that we have used from our studies really can help to create chest protectors and creating safer testing and metrics for this,” he explained.
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