Development of a point-of-care medical device to measure head impact in contact sports

Author

Ambekar, Dhanashree ; Al-Deneh, Zakaria ; Dao, Triet ; Dziech, Alexander L. ; Subbian, Vignesh ; Beyette, Fred R.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Energy, Environ., Biol. & Med. Eng., Univ. of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA

fYear

2013

fDate

3-7 July 2013

Firstpage

4167

Lastpage

4170

Abstract

This paper presents a prototype of a wireless, point-of-care medical device to measure head impacts in contact or collision sports. The device is currently capable of measuring linear acceleration, time, and the duration of impact. The location of the impact can also be recorded by scaling the prototype design to multiple devices. An experimental apparatus was built to simulate head impacts and to verify the data from the device. Preliminary results show that the biomechanical measures from the device are sufficiently accurate.

Keywords

Zigbee; accelerometers; biomechanics; biomedical equipment; impact (mechanical); microcontrollers; sport; wireless sensor networks; CONLISUS device; biomechanical measures; contact sports; head impact; impact duration; impact time; linear acceleration; wireless point-of-care medical device; Acceleration; Accelerometers; Educational institutions; Microcontrollers; Portable computers; Receivers; Zigbee;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2013 35th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Osaka

ISSN

1557-170X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EMBC.2013.6610463

Filename

6610463