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A Review of Impact Testing Methods for Headgear in Sports: Considerations for Improved Prevention of Head Injury Through Research and Standards
- Source :
- Journal of Biomechanical Engineering. 141
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- ASME International, 2019.
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Abstract
- Standards for sports headgear were introduced as far back as the 1960s and many have remained substantially unchanged to present day. Since this time, headgear has virtually eliminated catastrophic head injuries such as skull fractures and changed the landscape of head injuries in sports. Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) is now a prevalent concern and the effectiveness of headgear in mitigating mTBI is inconclusive for most sports. Given that most current headgear standards are confined to attenuating linear head mechanics and recent brain injury studies have underscored the importance of angular mechanics in the genesis of mTBI, new or expanded standards are needed to foster headgear development and assess headgear performance that addresses all types of sport-related head and brain injuries. The aim of this review was to provide a basis for developing new sports headgear impact tests for standards by summarizing and critiquing the following: (1) impact testing procedures currently codified in published headgear standards for sports and (2) new or proposed headgear impact test procedures in published literature and/or relevant conferences. Research areas identified as needing further knowledge to support standards test development include defining sports-specific head impact conditions, establishing injury and age appropriate headgear assessment criteria, and the development of headgear specific head and neck surrogates for at-risk populations.
- Subjects :
- headgear
Technology
HYBRID-III
medicine.medical_specialty
PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL
BICYCLE HELMETS
ICE HOCKEY HELMETS
Traumatic brain injury
Research areas
injury prevention
impact testing
Biophysics
Biomedical Engineering
TRAUMATIC BRAIN-INJURY
NATIONAL OPERATING COMMITTEE
Impact test
Engineering
Physical medicine and rehabilitation
INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE
0903 Biomedical Engineering
stomatognathic system
Physiology (medical)
Injury prevention
Medicine
BIOMECHANICAL PERFORMANCE
Head and neck
Engineering, Biomedical
Impact testing
Science & Technology
business.industry
Head injury
helmet
Age appropriate
medicine.disease
DIFFUSE AXONAL INJURY
stomatognathic diseases
CEREBRAL CONCUSSION
standards
business
human activities
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
head injury
0913 Mechanical Engineering
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15288951 and 01480731
- Volume :
- 141
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Biomechanical Engineering
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....e8d2b7cf09202e80a2a10782bd5471c6