Foul tip impact attenuation of baseball catcher masks using head impact metrics

• Currently, no scientific consensus exists on the relative safety of catcher mask styles and materials. Due to differences in mass and material properties, the style and material of a catcher mask influences the impact metrics observed during simulated foul ball impacts. The catcher surrogate was a Hybrid III head and neck equipped with a six degree of freedom sensor package to obtain linear accelerations and angular rates. Four mask styles were impacted using an air cannon for six 30 m/s and six 35 m/s impacts to the nasion. To quantify impact severity, the metrics peak linear acceleration, peak angular acceleration, Head Injury Criterion, Head Impact Power, and Gadd Severity Index were used. An Analysis of Covariance and a Tukey's HSD Test were conducted to compare the least squares mean between masks for each head injury metric. For each injury metric a P-Value less than 0.05 was found indicating a significant difference in mask performance. Tukey's HSD test found for each metric, the traditional style titanium mask fell in the lowest performance category while the hockey style mask was in the highest performance category. Limitations of this study prevented a direct correlation from mask testing performance to mild traumatic brain injury.
  
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Total Size

109 files (1.74 GB)

Data Citation

• Eckersley, C., White, T., Cutcliffe, H., Shridharani, J., Wood, G., Bass, C. (2017). Foul tip impact attenuation of baseball catcher masks using head impact metrics. Duke Digital Repository. https://doi.org/10.7924/G81N7Z29.

Creator

• Eckersley, Christopher
• Shridharani, Jay
• White, Terrance
• Wood, Garrett
• Cutcliffe, Hattie
• Bass, Cameron R.

DOI

• 10.7924/G81N7Z29

Subject

• Baseball
• Head kinematics
• Injury biomechanics
• Safety equipment performance

Publication Date

• June 19, 2017

ARK

• ark:/87924/r4qj79v72

Affiliation

• Pratt School of Engineering
• Biomedical Engineering

Publisher

• Duke Digital Repository

Language

• eng

Type

• Dataset

Format

• TXT
• COL

Related Materials

• Eckersley, C. P., White, T. R., Cutcliffe, H. C., Shridharani, J. K., Wood, G. W., & Bass, C. R. (2018). Foul tip impact attenuation of baseball catcher masks using head impact metrics. PloS One, 13(6), e0198316.  https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0198316

Contact

• Chris Eckersley: cpe4@duke.edu, ORCID: 0000-0001-5467-0358

License

• Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal

Title

• Foul tip impact attenuation of baseball catcher masks using head impact metrics

License

• http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Repository

• Duke Research Data Repository

Thumbnail	Title	Date Uploaded		Actions
	README.txt	2018-09-11	Public	Download
	Catcher_Steel	2018-09-11	Public
	Catcher_Hockey	2018-09-11	Public
	Catcher_Bare	2018-09-11	Public
	Catcher_Titanium	2018-09-11	Public
	Catcher_Shock	2018-09-11	Public