Item Details

title

Development, Validation, and Pilot Field Deployment of a Custom Mouthpiece Device for Head Impact Measurement

author

Rich, Andrea Morgan

abstract

Up to 3.8 million sports-related concussions occur in the United States alone each year. There is motivation to better understand the biomechanics of concussive and subconcussive impacts with wearable sensors, but they are currently limited by exhibiting motion relative to the skull and insufficient sample rates to capture short-duration impacts. The objective of this study was to develop a mouthpiece sensor with improved head kinematic measurement for use in non-helmeted and helmeted sports through laboratory validation and pilot field deployment with professional motorsport drivers.

subject

head impact exposure

head kinematics

instrumentation

motorsports

subconcussive impacts

validation

contributor

Brown, Philip J (committee chair)

Stitzel, Joel D (committee member)

Urban, Jillian (committee member)

Rowson, Steven (committee member)

date

2019-05-24T08:35:38Z (accessioned)

2024-05-20T08:30:08Z (available)

2019 (issued)

degree

Biomedical Engineering (discipline)

embargo

2024-05-20 (terms)

identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/10339/93925 (uri)

language

en (iso)

publisher

Wake Forest University

type

Thesis