New Bicycle Helmet Technology Designed to Reduce Brain Injuries
By admin on September 23, 2025
The Release Layer System (RLS) is a new bicycle helmet technology designed to reduce rotational forces on the brain and the risk of traumatic brain injury. This is like MIPS which is also designed to reduce rotational forces on the brain from impact that uses a yellow-colored layer inside the helmet that slides in all directions from impact. The Release Layer System has shell panels on the outside of the helmet that roll and release on impact. Think NASCAR and how race cars are designed to shed parts of the car to direct forces away from the driver to reduce the forces on the occupant. The human brain, like the NASCAR driver inside the race car, is suspended in fluid inside the skull and can move when the forces during a fall or impact on the body are great enough. This movement can cause the brain to impact the skull which can lead to injury of the brain matter including bleeding or axonal shearing. This is also why a person does not need to hit their head to suffer a traumatic brain injury if the forces on the brain are great enough to cause it to move inside the skull and strike the inside of a person’s skull. Think shaken baby syndrome. Advances in technology that may decrease brain movement during an impact for a vulnerable cyclist is always welcome news.
