Collision type and player anticipation affect head impact severity among youth ice hockey players

Pediatrics

Volumn 125, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Mihalik, Jason P ^a,b   Blackburn, J Troy ^a,b   Greenwald, Richard M ^c,d   Cantu, Robert C ^e   Marshall, Stephen W ^f,g   Guskiewicz, Kevin M ^a,b,g  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c SIMBEX   (United States)

^d DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

^e EMERSON HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f IL   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Child; Concussion; Injury; Physical activity; Sports; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; BIOMECHANICS; BODY POSITION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONCUSSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; ICE HOCKEY; INJURY SEVERITY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPORT INJURY; VIDEORECORDING;

ACCELERATION; ADOLESCENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEAD INJURIES, CLOSED; HEAD PROTECTIVE DEVICES; HOCKEY; HUMANS; MALE; NITRENDIPINE; ROTATION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 77953067702     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2009-2849     Document Type: Article

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