{"id":217994,"date":"2025-07-16T01:19:54","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T06:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/you-only-get-one-brain-the-best-helmet-material-for-protecting-your-noggin"},"modified":"2025-07-16T01:19:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T06:19:54","slug":"you-only-get-one-brain-the-best-helmet-material-for-protecting-your-noggin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/you-only-get-one-brain-the-best-helmet-material-for-protecting-your-noggin","title":{"rendered":"You only get one brain: The best helmet material for protecting your noggin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/you-only-get-one-brain-the-best-helmet-material-for-protecting-your-noggin2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Though participation in sports can have positive impacts both physiologically and socially, extreme sports, like football and roller derby, come with elevated risks. In a 2019 study, over 40% of 498 athletes suffered at least one injury over the course of the year.<\/p>\n<p>These injury rates are even higher in elite cricket\u2014around 70%, with about 13% of all injuries being to the head, neck, and face\u2014pointing to a need for improvements in protective helmets.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1063\/5.0271252\" target=\"_blank\"><i>AIP Advances<\/i><\/a>, researchers from Chongqing Jiaotong University and Chongqing No. 7 Middle School compared the performance of three helmet materials under the most common types of impact and loading conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though participation in sports can have positive impacts both physiologically and socially, extreme sports, like football and roller derby, come with elevated risks. In a 2019 study, over 40% of 498 athletes suffered at least one injury over the course of the year. These injury rates are even higher in elite cricket\u2014around 70%, with about [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}