Tag: Sport

Research: Testing ice hockey dasher boards

A new impactor was developed for improved testing of ice hockey boards. The instrumented impactor is built of a steel tube covered with neoprene foam and filled with rigidly mounted…

Article: Ice hockey boards

The results of our study on the assessment of impact performance of ice hockey boards is published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. The article is available online. Reference:…

Publication: ACL-ruptures in Alpine ski racing

ACL ruptures in Alpine ski racers are frequently observed. We analysed the association between physical fitness, race performance and the knee injury history. This corresponding publication “Investigating physical fitness and…

Research project: Ice hockey dasher boards

Ice hockey is a sports related to a high risk of injury. On behalf of the Swiss Council for Accident Prevention (bfu) we investigate the biomechanical loading of a player…