- Title
- Boxing headguard performance in punch machine tests
- Creator
- McIntosh, Andrew; Patton, Declan
- Date
- 2015
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/98925
- Identifier
- vital:10310
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2015-095094
- Identifier
- ISSN:0306-3674
- Abstract
- Background: The paper presents a novel laboratory method for assessing boxing headguard impact performance. The method is applied to examine the effects of headguards on head impact dynamics and injury risk. Methods: A linear impactor was developed, and a range of impacts was delivered to an instrumented Hybrid III head and neck system both with and without an AIBA (Association Internationale de Boxe Amateur)- approved headguard. Impacts at selected speeds between 4.1 and 8.3 m/s were undertaken. The impactor mass was approximately 4 kg and an interface comprising a semirigid 'fist' with a glove was used. Results: The peak contact forces were in the range 1.9-5.9 kN. Differences in head impact responses between the Top Ten AIBA-approved headguard and bare headform in the lateral and forehead tests were large and/or significant. In the 8.3 m/s fist-glove impacts, the mean peak resultant headform accelerations for bare headform tests was approximately 130 g compared with approximately 85 g in the forehead impacts. In the 6.85 m/s bare headform impacts, mean peak resultant angular head accelerations were in the range of 5200-5600 rad/s
- Publisher
- BMJ Publishing Group
- Relation
- British Journal of Sports Medicine Vol. 49, no. 17 (2015), p. 1108-1112
- Rights
- Copyright (c) The Authors
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 11 Medical and Health Sciences; 09 Engineering; 13 Education; Boxing; Headguard; Impact performance; Injury risk
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