Guardian Cap Effectiveness on Reducing Impact Accelerations and Enduring Player Health at the Collegiate Football Level

Using the Prism Neuro System and conducting impact testing, the study looked to evaluate the effectiveness of Guardian Caps. The Prism Neuro system gave us the ability to test proposition and visual skills of MIT Football players in season and out of season, and analyze their performance. We quantified how in season and out of season results differed, and compared results between players who wore Guardian Caps in games and players who didn’t. Trends indicated that athletes experienced an improved testing performance out of season. Building a drop contraption and conducting impact testing on helmets equipped with a 500g sensor helped provide the necessary data to determine the effectiveness of Guardian Caps. Overall, impact testing helmets resulted in promising results in terms of the ability of Guardian Caps to reduce maximum impact acceleration.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2025

Author dc:creator

• Carratu, Christopher

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Hosoi, Anette

Statement dc:rights

• In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted
• Copyright retained by author(s)

Licence dc:rights.uri

• https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC-EDU/1.0/

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/162566

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/162566