The sport of wrestling has an injury rate of 21.7 per thousand exposures. This can be reduced by wearing headgear during practice, which is not done due to problems with comfort, hearing, and adjustment. The team's primary objective for the project was to increase the likelihood of wear of headgear by wrestlers during practice. The team gathered information using a survey, selected materials, and established designs. The selected materials for each component were evaluated for best fit individually, then compiled into potential designs. These were then tested using the Instron, impact testing, and with testing on active participants. From these, a final design was selected that showed statistically significant improvements in comparison to the market standard.

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Creator

• Matyas, Catherine Marie
• Pereira, Marissa

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-042419-083835

Advisor

• Butler, Tiffiny A

Year

• 2019

Date created

• 2019-04-24

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Biomedical Engineering

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Dernière modification

• 2020-12-22