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Evaluating the Head Injury Risk Associated with Baseball and Softball
… Reduced injury factor balls, infield softball masks, batter's helmets, and catcher's masks have all been integrated into baseball and softball as a means for preventing serious head injury from ball impact. The research in this thesis had four objectives: to compare the responses of the Hybrid …
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An Analysis of Catcher's Mask Performance to Attenuate Head Accelerations
… of this study were to measure the ability of catcher's masks to attenuate head accelerations upon impact with a baseball, and to compare these head accelerations to established injury thresholds for concussions. Testing involved using a pneumatic cannon to shoot baseballs at an instrumented …
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Vibrational Characteristics of Dummy Headforms
… the frequency response of different baseball catcher's masks and assess their abilities to limit vibrations transferred to the headforms; and to compare kinematic and frequency responses between headforms in different impact scenarios (high-speed, low-mass projectile impacts vs. low-speed, …