Measurement of head impacts in collegiate football players: An investigation of positional and event-type differences

Neurosurgery

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1229-1235

  Mihalik, Jason P ^a   Bell, David R ^a   Marshall, Stephen W ^b   Guskiewicz, Kevin M ^a,c  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b IL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomechanics; Concussion; Helmet; Injury threshold; Mild traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETRY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; FOOTBALL; FORCE; HELMET; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

ACCELERATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATHLETIC INJURIES; BIOMECHANICS; BRAIN CONCUSSION; FOOTBALL; HEAD PROTECTIVE DEVICES; HUMANS; MALE; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 37649013585     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.neu.0000306101.83882.c8     Document Type: Article

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