Impact testing of snowboarding wrist protectors

The wrist is a common injury site for snowboarders who often fall onto an outstretched hand. Wrist protectors are worn by some to prevent injuries attenuating impact forces and limiting extension. This paper presents bespoke pendulum test device impacting when fitted surrogate. rig can replicate risk scenarios, while measuring temporal extension angles. Results from testing 12 snowboarding presented, including differences in peak vertical force, the time reach this peak, energy absorption between products. When compared unprotected surrogate, all products lowered force at least 24% increased 1.8 times. Due severity of load case employed, none below 2.8 kN, which value presented literature fracture cadaveric wrist. developed could be used support development new protectors, as well finite element models predicting protector performance.