From Hollywood to the halls of the federal judiciary, corporate America is sending an all-out blitz against the sporting world’s concussion epidemic, and one of the leading tacklers is Chester Springs’ Defend Your Head.

CEO and former New York Jets lineman John Roman is no stranger to hard hits, and his company has just launched its ProTech, a foam shell for football helmets.

“I think it’s particularly important for young players coming up to play a game that is as safe as it can be,” he said in a Philly.com report.

And while “current government standards for testing helmets focus on stopping skull fractures, which are comparatively rare,” the article stated, the ProTech makes a measurable impact on the problem, even if nothing can truly prevent concussions and their damaging effects on the brain. It softens the blow by 18 percent, the company claims.

Other area companies are also developing products for athletes, like headbands and mouthguards, and concussion testing protocols like the imPACT Applications one used by West Chester Area School District play a role too.

“We need to develop much better safety standard approaches to evaluate this,” University of Pennsylvania Center for Brain Injury and Repair Director Douglas Smith said in the article. “What needs to be done is actually quite difficult.”

Read more about the blitz on concussions through the Philly.com article here, and check out previous VISTA Today coverage of Defend Your Head’s innovations here.