The Real Science of Sport Podcast

Rugby's New High-Tech Mouthguards: How They Work And Why?

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 <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2023/oct/08/world-rugby-to-adopt-gamechanging-g-force-tech-to-flag-major-head-impacts" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Sean Ingle’s piece on the instrumented mouthguard technology</a> <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23299827/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Two articles that explore the elusive (and likely impossible) concussion threshold</a> And <a href="http://journals.lww.com/acsm-essr/fulltext/2011/01000/biomechanics_of_sport_concussion__quest_for_the.3.aspx" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">journals.lww.com/acsm-essr/fulltext/2011/01000/biomechanics_of_sport_concussion__quest_for_the.3.aspx</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/rpetty80/status/1714949409639747959" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Russ Petty tweet on playing time of the semi-finalists</a> <a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/instrumented-in-91006611" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">My article on the iMGs from the Patron page, now public</a> <a href="https://open.acast.com/public/patreon/fanSubscribe/4295570" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Get bonus content on Patreon</a> Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:grey;" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

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