Reducing brain injury by limiting brain motion during sudden deceleration or acceleration of the head

A method comprising:

• receiving information about an event in an environment surrounding an individual;
• determining, based on the received information, whether the event will likely cause brain injury of the individual;
• in response to a determination that the detected event will likely cause a brain injury, determining one or more parameters for a cycle of electrical stimulation, the cycle of electrical stimulation configured to cause a reduction in cerebral venous drainage and an increase in at least one of intraabdominal pressure or intrathoracic pressure within the individual;
• and
• sending the one or more parameters to a wearable actuation device configured to contact the abdomen of the individual, the wearable actuation device comprising one or more electrodes to induce the cycle of electrical stimulation to cause the increase in intraabdominal pressure within the individual.

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising instructions, the instructions, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:

• receive information about an event in an environment surrounding an individual;
• determine, based on the received information, whether the event will likely cause brain injury of the individual;
• in response to a determination that the detected event will likely cause a brain injury, determine one or more parameters for a wearable actuation device to cause a reduction in cerebral venous drainage and an increase in at least one of intraabdominal pressure or intrathoracic pressure within the individual, the wearable actuation device configured to contact the abdomen of the individual;
• and
• send the one or more parameters to the wearable actuation device.