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Rotational Head Kinematics In Football Impacts: An Injury Risk Function For Concussion, Steven Rowson, Stefan M. Duma, Jonathan G. Beckwith, Jeffrey J. Chu, Richard M. Greenwald, Joseph J. Crsico, P. Gunnar Brolinson, Ann-Christine Duhaime, Thomas W. Mcallister, Arthur C. Maerlender
Rotational Head Kinematics In Football Impacts: An Injury Risk Function For Concussion, Steven Rowson, Stefan M. Duma, Jonathan G. Beckwith, Jeffrey J. Chu, Richard M. Greenwald, Joseph J. Crsico, P. Gunnar Brolinson, Ann-Christine Duhaime, Thomas W. Mcallister, Arthur C. Maerlender
Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications
Recent research has suggested a possible link between sports-related concussions and neurodegen-erative processes, highlighting the importance of developing methods to accurately quantify head impact tolerance. The use of kinematic parameters of the head to predict brain injury has been sug-gested because they are indicative of the inertial response of the brain. The objective of this study is to characterize the rotational kinematics of the head associated with concussive impacts using a large head acceleration dataset collected from human subjects. The helmets of 335 football players were instrumented with accelerometer arrays that measured head acceleration following head impacts sustained during play, …