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Rugby's New High-Tech Mouthguards: How They Work And Why?
Description
This week World Rugby announced that they will be including head accelerations measured by smart mouthguards into the sport's head injury assessment protocols used at the top level of the game to help identify potential head injuries during a game. This is how they work, why the tech could be a game changer and the challenges facing their adoption.
Credits: Opening clip Rugby World Cup Youtube channel
SHOW NOTES
Sean Ingle’s piece on the instrumented mouthguard technology
Two articles that explore the elusive (and likely impossible) concussion threshold And journals.lww.com/acsm-essr/fulltext/2011/01000/biomechanics_of_sport_concussion__quest_for_the.3.aspx
Russ Petty tweet on playing time of the semi-finalists
My article on the iMGs from the Patron page, now public
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