Numerical reconstruction of real-life concussive football impacts

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 390-398

  Fréchède, Bertrand ^a   McIntosh, Andrew S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Concussion; Head; Injury; Model; Rigid body; Tolerance

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN CONCUSSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY TRANSFER; FOOTBALL; MORPHOMETRICS; RUGBY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; SPORT INJURY; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMECHANICS; HUMAN; INJURY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; VIDEORECORDING;

BIOMECHANICS; BRAIN CONCUSSION; FOOTBALL; HUMANS; MALE; MANIKINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 65449143216     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: 15300315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/MSS.0b013e318186b1c5     Document Type: Article

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