Mild traumatic brain injuries are typically caused by nonpenetrating head impacts that
accelerate the skull and result in deformation of the brain within the skull. The shear and …

Head impact exposure in popular contact sports is not well understood, especially in the
youth population, despite recent advances in impact-sensing technology which has allowed …

Wearable sensors embedded with inertial measurement units have become commonplace
for the measurement of head impact biomechanics, but individual systems often suffer from a …

This study is aimed to develop a high quality, extensively validated finite element (FE)
human head model for enhanced head injury prediction and prevention. The geometry of …

Head impact sensors measure head kinematics in sports, and sensor accuracy is crucial for
investigating the potential link between repetitive head loading and clinical outcomes. Many …

In studying traumatic brain injury (TBI), it has been long hypothesized that the head is more
vulnerable to injury from impacts in certain directions or locations, as the relationship …

Trauma to the brain is a biomechanical problem where the initiating event is a dynamic
loading (blunt, inertial, blast) to the head. To understand the relationship between the …

It has been proposed that neck muscle activation may play a role in head response resulting
from impacts in American Football. The importance of neck stiffness and active musculature …

Measurements of brain deformations under injurious loading scenarios are actively sought.
In this work, we report experimentally measured head kinematics and corresponding …

Head surrogates are widely used in biomechanical research and headgear assessment.
They are designed to approximate the inertial and mechanical properties of the head and …