ArticleBMJ open sport & exercise medicine2021
Quantifying head acceleration exposure via instrumented mouthguards (iMG): a validity and feasibility study protocol to inform iMG suitability for the TaCKLE project.
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- Head Acceleration Event Exposure During Elite Men's and Women's Rugby Union Training.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2026Article
- The Incidence of Head Acceleration Events During Pitch-Based Training and Match Play in Professional Men's Rugby League.Scandinavian journal of medicine & science in sports · 2025Article
- Instrumented Mouthguards in Men's Rugby League: Quantifying the Incidence and Probability of Head Acceleration Events at a Group and Individual Level.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2025Article
- Head Kinematics Associated with Off-Field Head Injury Assessment (HIA1) Events in a Season of English Elite-Level Club Men's and Women's Rugby Union Matches.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2025Article
- Concussion injuries in sports and the role of instrumented mouthguards: a mini review.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2025Review
- The application of match-event and instrumented mouthguard data to inform match limits: An example using rugby union Premiership and rugby league Super League data from England.European journal of sport science · 2024Article
- On-field Head Acceleration Exposure Measurements Using Instrumented Mouthguards: Multi-stage Screening to Optimize Data Quality.Annals of biomedical engineering · 2024Article
- The Incidence and Propensity of Head Acceleration Events in a Season of Men's and Women's English Elite-Level Club Rugby Union Matches.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2024Article
- Instrumented mouthguards in elite-level men's and women's rugby union: characterising tackle-based head acceleration events.BMJ open sport & exercise medicine · 2024Article
- Player and match characteristics associated with head acceleration events in elite-level men's and women's rugby union matches.BMJ open sport & exercise medicine · 2024Article
- Head Exposure to Acceleration Database in Sport (HEADSport): a kinematic signal processing method to enable instrumented mouthguard (iMG) field-based inter-study comparisons.BMJ open sport & exercise medicine · 2024Article
- On-Field Deployment and Validation for Wearable Devices.Annals of biomedical engineering · 2022Review
- Traumatic brain injury: progress and challenges in prevention, clinical care, and research.The Lancet. Neurology · 2022Review
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- Quantification of Head Acceleration Events in Rugby League: An Instrumented Mouthguard and Video Analysis Pilot Study.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
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Abstract
Instrumented mouthguards (iMGs) have the potential to quantify head acceleration exposures in sport. The Rugby Football League is looking to deploy iMGs to quantify head acceleration exposures as part of the Tackle and Contact Kinematics, Loads and Exposure (TaCKLE) project. iMGs and associated software platforms are novel, thus limited validation studies exist. The aim of this paper is to describe the methods that will determine the validity (ie, laboratory validation of kinematic measures and on-field validity) and feasibility (ie, player comfort and wearability and practitioner considerations) of available iMGs for quantifying head acceleration events in rugby league. Phase 1 will determine the reliability and validity of iMG kinematic measures (peak linear acceleration, peak rotational velocity, peak rotational acceleration), based on laboratory criterion standards. Players will have three-dimensional dental scans and be provided with available iMGs for phase 2 and phase 3. Phase 2 will determine the on-field validity of iMGs (ie, identifying true positive head acceleration events during a match). Phase 3 will evaluate player perceptions of fit (too loose, too tight, bulky, small/thin, held mouth open, held teeth apart, pain in jaw muscles, uneven bite), comfort (on lips, gum, tongue, teeth) and function (speech, swallowing, dry mouth). Phase 4 will evaluate the practical feasibility of iMGs, as determined by practitioners using the system usability scale (preparing iMG system and managing iMG data). The outcome will provide a systematic and robust assessment of a range of iMGs, which will help inform the suitability of each iMG system for the TaCKLE project.
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