Advancing Considerations for Impact Test Equipment: Leveraging Biokinetics’ Solutions for Superior Performance

For industries where product safety, reliability, and durability are non-negotiable, impact testing is a critical process that helps protect human users from serious threats of harm. From body armour that’s used by law enforcement and military personnel to personal protection equipment (PPE) used in the construction industry, protective material used in the automotive and aerospace […]

Blunt Force Trauma Risks and Retrofitting Armour for Modern Threats

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Blunt force trauma (BFT) is a significant safety concern across multiple industries globally, particularly in fields like law enforcement, the military, and industrial sectors, where the risk of sudden impacts and exposure to lethal force is much higher than in other vocations. Blunt force injuries are among the highest causes of fatalities identified by forensic […]

Understanding the Lasting Effects of Impact Trauma on the Human Body

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Impact trauma, often referred to as blunt force trauma (BFT), can have profoundly detrimental effects on the human body, lasting well beyond the point of impact. The sudden, forceful transfer of kinetic energy into the human body can lead to a variety of injuries, ranging from minor contusions to severe, permanent damage to soft tissue […]

Safeguarding Athletes: The Importance of Specialized Sports Testing

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Whether a professional, amateur or recreational athlete, every sport contains some amount of injury risk. However, sudden impact to the head can lead to a variety of injuries, ranging from contusions and lacerations to concussions, skull fracture and severe traumatic brain injury.  Even whiplash, often thought of as a neck injury, can involve concussion-like symptoms […]

Key Factors in Impact Injury Research

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Impact injury research forms the bedrock of safety research, especially when guided by Biokinetics’ decades of consulting and testing experience. As a way of assessing the factors that contribute to impact injuries, as well as how specific variables affect the severity and long-term effects on the human body, impact injury research helps to establish an […]