Head impact sensor studies in sports: a systematic review of exposure confirmation methods

DA Patton, CM Huber, D Jain, RK Myers… - Annals of biomedical …, 2020 - Springer
To further the understanding of long-term sequelae as a result of repetitive head impacts in
sports, in vivo head impact exposure data are critical to expand on existing evidence from …

Validation and comparison of instrumented mouthguards for measuring head kinematics and assessing brain deformation in football impacts

Y Liu, AG Domel, SA Yousefsani, J Kondic… - Annals of Biomedical …, 2020 - Springer
Because of the rigid coupling between the upper dentition and the skull, instrumented
mouthguards have been shown to be a viable way of measuring head impact kinematics for …

Design and virtual testing of American football helmets–A review

M Dymek, M Ptak, FAO Fernandes - Archives of Computational Methods in …, 2022 - Springer
This paper aims to review the recent progress in the research carried out by scientists
worldwide regarding American Footballers' head injuries and head protective equipment …

Instantaneous whole-brain strain estimation in dynamic head impact

K Ghazi, S Wu, W Zhao, S Ji - Journal of Neurotrauma, 2021 - liebertpub.com
Head injury models are notoriously time consuming and resource demanding in simulations,
which prevents routine application. Here, we extend a convolutional neural network (CNN) …

The effect of the FIFA 11+ with added neck exercises on maximal isometric neck strength and peak head impact magnitude during heading: a pilot study

K Peek, J Andersen, MJ McKay, T Versteegh… - Sports Medicine, 2022 - Springer
Background Higher neck strength has been postulated to reduce head impact magnitude
during purposeful heading in football. Objectives This pilot trial explored the effect of a neck …

Sex differences in neck strength and head impact kinematics in university rugby union players

EMP Williams, FJ Petrie, TN Pennington… - European journal of …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Globally, over three million women participate in rugby union, yet injury prevention and
training strategies are predominantly based on androcentric data. These strategies may …

Time window of head impact kinematics measurement for calculation of brain strain and strain rate in American football

Y Liu, AG Domel, NJ Cecchi, E Rice, AA Callan… - Annals of biomedical …, 2021 - Springer
Wearable devices have been shown to effectively measure the head's movement during
impacts in sports like American football. When a head impact occurs, the device is triggered …

A network-based response feature matrix as a brain injury metric

S Wu, W Zhao, B Rowson, S Rowson, S Ji - Biomechanics and modeling …, 2020 - Springer
Conventional brain injury metrics are scalars that treat the whole head/brain as a single unit
but do not characterize the distribution of brain responses. Here, we establish a network …

Concussion classification via deep learning using whole-brain white matter fiber strains

Y Cai, S Wu, W Zhao, Z Li, Z Wu, S Ji - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Developing an accurate and reliable injury predictor is central to the biomechanical studies
of traumatic brain injury. State-of-the-art efforts continue to rely on empirical, scalar metrics …

A computational study of liquid shock absorption for prevention of traumatic brain injury

H Vahid Alizadeh, MG Fanton… - Journal of …, 2021 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI), more colloquially known as concussion, is common in
contact sports such as American football, leading to increased scrutiny of head protective …