Enhancing Helmet Safety With Polyurethane Foam: What You Need to Know
Protecting the brain is essential when playing contact sports. Helmets are one of the most important pieces of protective equipment for athletes, and are designed to absorb impact energy and spread the contact force over a larger footprint to reduce the risk of skull fracture and traumatic brain injury. Moderating an impact to a lesser […]
Pioneering Impact Injury Research: Biokinetics’ Commitment to Injury Prevention
Understanding how injuries occur and preventing them is essential in environments where safety is critical. From law enforcement and military applications to the sports field, transport, and construction industries, rigorous testing with a deep understanding of injuries helps drive forward mitigation and the development of new regulations that minimize overall risk when it matters most. […]
What Is The Positive Impact Of Testing On Helmet Safety?
Helmet performance and safety have dramatically improved over the past decade, thanks largely to advancements in materials, designs, and testing methods. That said, a gap still exists when it comes to adequately assessing the risks that lead to concussions and other head injuries. In 2025, there will be a continued focus on innovation and striving […]
Reducing Injury Through Reliable Testing of Sport Protective Gear
Protective sports equipment is essential for protecting athletes at all levels, from amateur to professional play. To perform as necessary, rigorous testing against a wide range of standards set by global leaders like NOCSAE, ASTM, and ISO is crucial. At Biokinetics, we understand the importance of accurate performance testing to ensure equipment performs as intended […]
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
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
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
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
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 […]
