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Gateshead woman launches headband which aims to reduce head injuries in sport

A Gateshead woman is looking to change the future of contact sport with her new headband, which is designed to protect the brain from impacts to the head.

Judith McMinn, who is a board director of Northumberland County Football Association, founded her company Rezon and developed the Halos headband from her kitchen table in Rowlands Gill, which is now worn in Premier League academies and in Premiership Rugby in the UK.

The headband has nine individual layers that are designed to protect the brain from rotational force impacts to the head whilst playing sport, with tests proving that the band does this by up to 61%.

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