REAL WORLD HEAD IMPACT DATA MEASUREMENTS ON JOCKEYS

Authors

  • M. Rueda
  • M. Gilchrist

Keywords:

Instrumentation, Head injury, Equestrian, Horse racing

Abstract

A novel instrumentation system previously implemented on American football helmets (Greenwald et al. 2008) has been adapted and validated against a Hybrid III head and neck for use in an equestrian environment. This has been used to determine the forces applied to jockeys’ heads during fall impacts in competition racing.

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Issue

27 International Conference on Biomechanics in Sports (2009)

Section

Coaching and Sports Activities

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Authors can retain copyright, while granting the International Society of Biomechanics in Sports (ISBS) the right of first publication.