Korean experts have determined how they can make the best sports helmet to protect the brain of athletes.
Head injuries are a common risk in many sports, from cricket, rugby, football and roller derby to name just a few.
Some studies suggest up to 40 percent of the athletes will increase an injury of more than a year of training and compete.
In sport such as cricket, the risk can rise to 70 percent, with slightly more than one in 10 injuries to critical areas such as the head, neck and face mainly because of a hard ball launched at high speeds from Bowler to Batsman
The consequences of such injuries can be devastating.
Aussie cricket player Phillip Hughes, 25, was killed famous in 2014 after a devastating head injury supplied by a bouncer bent by Sean Abbott.
He was later confirmed that he died of a dissection from a vertebral boot, a tear in one of the arteries in the neck that feeds the oxygen -rich blood of the brain stem. Such an injury entails the risk to cause a stroke.
Now a team of researchers has devised a way to assess the best helmet material to reduce serious head injury.
Korean experts have determined how you can make the best sports helmet to protect the brain of athletes
Scientists from Chongqing Jiaotong University In addition to Chongqing No. 7 Middle School, analyzed the performance of three different helmet materials.
These were a strong plastic called acrylonitrile butadies styrene (ABS), glass fiber alloys and aluminum composites.
With the help of computer simulations, the team made digital copies of helmets made of any material.
These digital helmets were then based on cricket by various automated impact scenarios, where the team analyzed how well they protected a simulated human head and brain.
They discovered that for training and at the recreational level, an ABS helmet offered sufficient protection.
At an elite level – where balls are faster and therefore more dangerous, speed – speed or aluminum alloys, they performed better.
They added, while one of these had its advantages, they noticed that fiber optic was a brackish than aluminum, it gave an advantage because it divided the stress of an impact over the entire surface, reducing the risk of a traumatic injury.
Author of the study, which was published in the magazine AIP is progressingTao Wang said, although the results are interesting, they are not universal for every sport, each with their unique stress.
Phillip Hughes was hit by a short ball supplied by Fast Bowler Abbott on November 25, 2014. He died in the hospital two days later
“Each sport must be checked separately because the charging conditions differ in different sports,” he said.
Government data suggests that there are approximately 6,500 sports -related concussion admission to hospitals in England per year.
The issue of head injury in sport has been increasingly focused in recent years because of the fears that repeated strokes can increase the risk of dementia.
A 2023 study commissioned by the Football Association and Professional Footballers’ Association found professional football players the opportunity to get the diagnosis of dementia than the general population.
Later studies have shown that this is probably not a risk for amateur players.
Playing sport even turned out to be protective against dementia, most likely because of regular exercise of a well -known factor that protects against memory -robbing disorder.
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