The Efficacy of Soccer Headgear

Journal of Athletic Training

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 220-224

  Broglio, Steven P ^a,b   Ju, Yan Ying ^a   Broglio, Michael D ^a   Sell, Timothy C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Head injury; Impact force; Soccer heading

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FORCE; HEAD INJURY; HEADGEAR; HELMET; IMPACT FORCE; MATERIALS TESTING; SPORT; SPORT INJURY;

EID: 0842328621     PISSN: 10626050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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