Potential of Soft-Shelled Rugby Headgear to Lower Regional Brain Strain Metrics During Standard Drop Tests
The presence of rugby headgear may be able to reduce the severity of head impact exposure during rugby. However, to understand how these findings relate to brain strain mitigation in the field, further investigation into the relationship between the impact conditions in this study and those encountered during actual gameplay is necessary.
Authors
- Nick Draper (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4466-3792)
- Natalia Kabaliuk (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9899-3738)
- Danyon Stitt (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7139-3660)
- Keith Alexander (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9887-730X)
Institutions
- University of Canterbury (NZ)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Sports Medicine - Open
- Published
- 2024-09-27
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s40798-024-00744-2
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Automotive and Human Injury Biomechanics
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.42