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

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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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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

Title	Date Uploaded	Visibility	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

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