How to Protect Your Head from Seizures

There’s no grey area on this fact: whenever a physical (tonic-clonic) seizure occurs, the head and brain is at risk. Knowing how to protect your head and brain from seizures and falls is important.

Living with epilepsy or other conditions with seizures is not easy. It’s not easy on the person who suffers the seizures and all the challenges and effects that come with them; nor is it easy on the loved ones and carers around them.

But here’s the good news: there are practical ways to reduce head and brain injury risks during seizures. And they don’t have to involve wearing bulky, uncomfortable headgear that can be off-putting to wear from day one.

Everyone who suffers seizures should be able to live in comfort, confidence, and dignity.

Let’s learn about the very real risks seizures pose, and how we can protect the head – and more importantly, the brain – from damage

Understanding Seizures and Head Injury Risks

Seizures occur when there’s a sudden burst of electrical activity in the brain – a bit like an electrical storm that temporarily disrupts normal brain function. This can manifest in various ways, from brief moments of absence or confusion, to full-body convulsions where a person loses consciousness and falls.

Now, seizures can cause all kinds of challenges for someone.

But for head injuries specifically, the most concerning type is a tonic-clonic seizure. They give little to no warning, leaving little to no time to protect from a fall. The nature of movements experienced during a tonic-clonic seizure can of course also make the head and brain vulnerable to damage.

And that’s precisely why head-worn protection becomes so critical – you simply cannot predict when a seizure might strike.

The Disturbing Facts About Head Injuries

It is daunting for anyone who suffers seizures, to think of the physical hurt that could be caused. It’s helpful if you become familiar with typical signs or symptoms that often occur prior to a seizure, and for people around you to know how to respond and keep you out of harm’s way.

But of course, it’s not always this straightforward – especially for those who are experiencing multiple seizures per week or even every day, or aren’t necessarily in the company of others.

Falls and seizures can result in traumatic brain injuries (TBIs), cuts, bruises, and even broken bones. But what’s even more concerning are the potential long-term effects caused by repetitive small force impacts, called sub-concussions.

Repeated impacts to the head can potentially worsen epilepsy severity* and may contribute to conditions like Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE). CTE is a degenerative brain disease that progresses with repeated head injuries, with sub-concussions – the more frequent, lower-impact and asymptomatic impacts – being the main culprit.

CTE is getting increasing attention in the world of contact and collision sports, where sub-concussions are going unnoticed and therefore untreated. Consequently, the accumulated damage from sub-concussions is leading to CTE diagnoses for multiple players at all levels – a building stack of evidence on why we must protect our brains from this silent disease.

The Emotional Toll of Seizures

The constant worry of uncertainty doesn’t just affect the person who suffers seizures – it extends to their entire family and support network. Parents may be reluctant to let their children play outside or do things they’d typically love doing. Adult sufferers might limit their own activities, ‘just in case’. The anxiety can be overwhelming.

And then there’s the issue of protective gear. Traditional helmets, while effective for skull fractures, cuts, and scrapes, can be bulky, uncomfortable, and frankly, socially stigmatising. Many people, especially teenagers and adults, simply refuse to wear them – choosing to risk injury rather than deal with the questions and prejudice.

For everyone who suffers seizures, feeling confident and comfortable is just as important as being protected from head and brain injury.

Protective Headwear: Moving Beyond Bulky Helmets

Traditional protective helmets have been the standard recommendation for decades. And while they do provide protection, they come with significant drawbacks:

Adults and children alike are refusing to wear bulky helmets because of the drawbacks they impose on a person’s confidence, dignity, quality of life, and comfort.

This is where NeuroSure’s innovation has tried – and succeeded – to bridge the gap between protection and living. The NeuroSure Rezon Halos® lightweight protective headband aims to protect the brain while remaining discreet and comfortable for everyday wear.

The NeuroSure Rezon Halos® Headband: Protection Without the Stigma

Halos® is the first and only legally approved PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) of its type. Weighing just 70 grams (less than a small apple), it looks more like a stylish headband or hair accessory than protective gear.

Yet beneath its unassuming appearance lies some rather impressive technology.

The headband uses patented Rotection® technology, specifically designed to reduce the rotational forces that cause the brain to rotate inside the skull, and create neuroinflammation leading to brain injuries. Testing at internationally recognised and independent Virginia Tech with a gold-standard testing methodology showed the Halos® reduced rotational forces by up to 61% and concussion risk by 74%. Halos® was awarded a 5-star rating as a result.

Alongside winning more than 20 awards, Halos® is a medical device based on the local geography and also medically endorsed by brain experts, family doctors, physiotherapists, and occupational therapists globally.

It is head protection beyond scrapes and cuts. It is the first and only legally approved protective headwear of its type in the UK and Europe, having secured the required Category II PPE certification from Italcert Notified body No.0426. It is also UKCA marked, and legally approved to use the CE mark.

What Does All This Mean?

Essentially, Halos® has been designed to protect the brain. It’s not to protect the head alone from receiving a cut or scrape; it goes way beyond that, underneath the surface, to the most crucial organ in the body and most at risk during a seizure – the brain.

This lightweight, comfortable headband is designed to protect your brain from rotational forces – a highly damaging movement that, repetitively and over time, can progressively tear blood vessels and brain cells, and cause inflammation in the brain, leading to neurodegenerative consequences.

How Does Halos® Work?

Repetitive bangs to the head (concussion or sub-concussion) often experienced with seizures is what Halos® is designed to protect you from.

Its tested technology is made up of nine protective layers that slide over each other on impact, absorbing a lot of the transmission of rotational forces to the brain. So when the head takes an impact, the brain rotates less because the nine layers work frictionally as a barrier to reduce the measure of force to the brain.

As well as this, you have three layers that specifically ‘scrunch up’ on impact to further reduce the rotational forces to the brain.

The independent studies conducted with Virginia Tech prove that Halos® succeeds in significantly reducing the risk of neurodegenerative consequences from rotational forces to the head.

What is suffered repetitively in the brain during life – especially when risk and probability are higher – often only presents later on in life, when the damage is already done. This is what Halos® is designed to protect from.

Why More People Are Choosing Halos®

We’ve mentioned the science, technology and testing that underpins the purpose and creation of Halos®. But let’s go back for a moment to one of the biggest risks of all – that people are choosing not to wear protective headgear because of how it makes them feel emotionally.

This is a crucial element to the quality of someone’s life. To feel confident, able, and not determined or labelled by a medical condition.

Halos® is brain protection that doesn’t look like protection. It is so versatile and durable, it can be worn any time, during high-risk activities (it was originally designed for contact sports such as rugby), while providing consistent protection against the rotational forces that can cause serious, long-term harm.

For people with epilepsy or who suffer seizures, this means the freedom to participate in more activities with greater confidence, less fear of injury, and a better quality of life.

Addressing Common Concerns

Taking Control of Your Safety

By understanding the risks and implementing practical solutions – from environmental modifications to innovative protective wear like the Halos® headband – you can significantly reduce injury risk.

The key is finding a solution that you’ll use consistently. The best protective headgear is ultimately one that balances safety with comfort and discretion – so that you can live your life confidently, and without constant fear of injury.

The Rezon Halos® headband offers a way to stay safe without sacrificing dignity or comfort. And that is crucial for seizure sufferers.