Context: With an estimated 3.8 million sport-and recreation-related concussions occurring
annually, targeted prevention and diagnostic methods are needed. Biomechanical analysis …

Context: Hockey is a skillful contact sport with an elevated injury risk at higher levels of play.
An understanding of injury incidence, type, mechanism, and severity at various levels of …

Objective: The aim of this study was to quantify head impact exposure for a collegiate
women's soccer team over the course of the 2014 season. Design: Observational and …

Background A novel bicycle helmet concept has been developed to mitigate rotational head
acceleration, which is a predominant mechanism of traumatic brain injury (TBI). This …

Background Head kinematics generated by laboratory reconstructions of professional
football helmet impacts have been applied to computational models to study the …

Cycling is a leading cause of mild traumatic brain injury in the US. While bicycle helmets
help protect cyclists who crash, limited biomechanical data exist differentiating helmet …

Background Comparative studies of different helmet designs are essential to determine
differences in helmet performance. The present study comparatively evaluated the impact …

Concussions can occur in any sport. Often, clinical and biomechanical research efforts are
disconnected. This review paper analyzes current concussion issues in sports from a …

The objective of this study was to develop and validate a set of Hybrid-III head and neck (HIII-
HN) and impactor models that can be used to assess American football design modifications …

Physical differences between youth and adults, which include incomplete myelination,
limited neck muscle development, and a higher head-body ratio in the youth population …