Studies of football athletes have implicated repetitive head impact exposure in the onset of
cognitive and brain structural changes, even in the absence of diagnosed concussion …

Context: Measuring head impact exposure is a critical step toward understanding the
mechanism and prevention of sport-related mild traumatic brain (concussion) injury, as well …

Head impact exposure in youth football has not been well-documented, despite children
under the age of 14 accounting for 70% of all football players in the United States. The …

The purpose of this study was to quantify the severity of head impacts sustained by
individual collegiate football players and to investigate differences between impacts …

Biomechanical data collected from head impacts in football have been used to characterize
exposure and predict injury risk. This study sought to specifically quantify the factors that …

Soccer is the source of the highest concussion rates among female athletes and is
associated with neurological deficits at many levels of play. Despite its importance to our …

OBJECTIVE: To determine the relationship between recorded head accelerations and
impact locations and acute clinical outcome of symptomatology, neuropsychological, and …

Concussions sustained during college and professional football careers have been
associated with both acute and chronic neurologic impairment. The contribution of …

Impacts to the head are common in collision sports such as football. Emerging research has
begun to elucidate concussion tolerance levels, but sub-concussive impacts that do not …

Sports-related concussion is the most common athletic head injury with football having the
highest rate among high school athletes. Traditionally, research on the biomechanics of …