The Impact Protection System (IPS) is a patent pending innovative product designed
to provide greater safety to full contact football participants, impact-prone sports/recreation
participants, and physically challenged individuals that are prone to falls. IPS's innovation is
significant because it protects youth, adults, amateurs, and professionals.
See The IPS Mission / Vision
Conceptualized and designed by Charles T. Cooksey of The Cooksey Group,
IPS minimizes and reduces the occurrence of head, concussion, neck, and shoulder injuries
caused by impact forces and falls. Such injuries can be devastating immediately as in
cases of paralysis. In extreme cases, fatalities occur.
Delayed results of these injuries can develop later in individuals' lives long after their active years. In those cases early dementia and
Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) are common. IPS provides superior protection for such injuries while sustaining full
athletic and utility functionality with unrestricted mobility for its users. By design, IPS is possibly the today's most innovative safety
equipment for active people.
Collision–prone sports/recreation activities include:
Football
Hockey
Cycling / Motocross / Mountain Biking
Motorcycling
Downhill Skiing / Ski Jumping
Bobsleighing
Skateboarding
Snowboarding
Bull/Bronco Riding
Lacrosse
Equestrian Sports
IPS’s uniqueness is that it is:
1. A single helmet and shoulder pad system that protects the head, neck, and shoulders simultaneously;
2. A system that uniquely incorporates innovative insulating safety barriers to absorb, repel, and divert impact forces away from
highly vulnerable areas;
3. Superior in material and design elements with unprecedented neck protection features that prevent neck hyperextension,
fractures, and possible paralysis.
IPS is the enhanced and much safer replacement system for the dual systems,
separate helmet systems and shoulder pad systems (football and hockey),
and single helmet systems (skateboarding, skiing, bull/bronco riding,
the physically challenged, etc.) currently in the markets.
Existing systems primarily focus on absorbing impact forces through padding
systems and hard shells as a means of protection. As such, those systems do
not provide sufficient protection to reduce and minimize serious impact and
fall injuries.
Frankly, sports/recreation equipment has not paced with the size, speed, and extremes of modern sports/recreation activities. Some
football impacts are equivalent to a 45 mph car crashing into a brick wall. IPS is designed to adequately address the impact
extremes endured by the modern sports/recreation participant.
By addressing modern impact extremes, IPS will negate possible legislated and legal restrictions and actions that may stifle the
existence and enjoyment of many very popular sports/recreation activities. Recent legal actions include:
- 75 former NFL players sued the NFL for concussion related ailments on July 19, 2011;
- On August 17, 2011, Jim McMahon (former Chicago Bear QB) and six other former players sued the NFL in
- February 23, 2012 - Former Chicago Bear Dave Duerson’s family sued the NFL over his suicide last year, claiming the
Recent headlines and graphic televised incidents have brought very focused attention to devastating and fatal injuries in
sports/recreation. Concussions, early dementia, fractured necks and backs, paralysis, Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE),
and sadly, suicides are as common as world championships and mega contracts. See Impact Injury News,
Concussions and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) in the News, and Studies and Statistics.
The following organizations are world leaders in concussion research, prevention, awareness, and advocacy:
Sports Legacy Institute
Chicago Concussion Coalition
Illinois Eye Institute Foundation
Go to IPS Funding Support and Rewards and The IPS Shop to financially support this much needed product innovation
designed to minimize and reduce the occurrence of catastrophic injuries including paralysis and concussions.
Go to IPS Markets - Sports/Recreation and IPS Markets - Physically Challenged for more market information.
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