Head acceleration is less than 10 percent of helmet acceleration in football impacts

• Published in: Biomedical sciences instrumentation Vol. 42; p. 383
• Main Authors: Manoogian, Sarah, McNeely, David, Duma, Stefan, Brolinson, Gunnar, Greenwald, Richard
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.01.2006
• Subjects: Acceleration; Athletic Injuries - prevention & control; Equipment Design; Equipment Failure Analysis; Football - physiology; Head Movements - physiology; Head Protective Devices; Humans; Monitoring, Ambulatory - instrumentation; Monitoring, Ambulatory - methods; Motion; Physical Stimulation - methods; Sports Equipment; Stress, Mechanical; Transducers

Sports-related concussions constitute 20 percent of brain injuries each year in the United States. Concussion research has included a variety of instrumentation and techniques to measure head accelerations. Most recently, the Head Impact Telemetry (HIT) System (Simbex, Lebanon, NH), a wireless syste...