Ocular hazards of playing squash rackets.

Eye injuries in sport: with particular reference to squash rackets and badminton.

Ocular hazards of playing badminton.

Although badminton is played in many parts of the world, it is most popular in South-East Asia. It is a racket game with a shuttlecock played as singles between two or as doubles between four players. The racket is similar to a squash racket but much lighter. The shuttlecock is almost cone-shaped, 31 in. long with a diameter of 21 in. at one end and i in. at the other. Most ocular injuries occu...

Dental squash injuries - a survey among players and coaches in Switzerland, Germany and France.

Squash belongs to sporting activities with medium risk of causing dental trauma. Because of high velocity, close body contact and the use of rackets the injury potential in squash has increased. The aim of this work was to conduct a comparative study between Switzerland, Germany and France on a number of issues: the frequency of dental and facial injuries in squash, athletes' habits of wearing ...

A comparison of heart rate responses in racquet games.

The present study investigated the heart rate response to playing tennis with special reference to the skill levels and ages of the participants. Data obtained in a similar manner during earlier studies of badminton and squash players were compared with that obtained during tennis. The number of rallies, mean rally time and actual playing time in 30 minutes of play was also compared for the dif...

Badminton playing robot - a multidisciplinary test case in Mechatronics ⋆

We present a Mechatronics design approach and related technologies for a badminton playing robot, as a first stage of a multi-year project. The robot is using non-modified shuttles and rackets, which are detected and localized using purely visual information. The robot subsystems are presented: mechanical design, visual detection of the shuttle, shuttle trajectory estimation and interception, a...