ArticleJournal of neurotrauma2017
Vestibular Dysfunction after Subconcussive Head Impact.
Article in Journal of neurotrauma, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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37 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Cognitive Effects of Heading in Professional Football: A Systematic Review.International journal of sports medicine · 2025Pooled it
- A Systematic Review of Head Impacts and Acceleration Associated with Soccer.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Pooled it
- The effects of repetitive head impacts on postural control: A systematic review.Journal of science and medicine in sport · 2021Pooled it
- Neurophysiological Effects of Repeated Soccer Heading in Youth.Journal of biomechanical engineering · 2023Trial
- Effects of purposeful soccer heading on circulating small extracellular vesicle concentration and cargo.Journal of sport and health science · 2021Trial
- Does acute soccer heading cause an increase in plasma S100B? A randomized controlled trial.PloS one · 2020Trial
- Reducing Video Verification Burden: Machine Learning Classification of Head Acceleration Events in Youth Football.Research square · 2026Article
- Longitudinal changes in frontopolar cortex activity during postural tasks in collegiate ice hockey athletes.Neurophotonics · 2025Article
- A Comparison of Quantitative Pupillometry and VOMS in Division 1 Female Soccer Players.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2025Article
- The Acute Effects of Non-concussive Head Impacts on Brain Microstructure, Chemistry and Function in Male Soccer Players: A Pilot Randomised Controlled Trial.Sports medicine - open · 2025Article
- The effect of football (soccer) heading on gross and fine motor control in women.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2025Article
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- Assessing the capability of the corneal blink reflex to display neurological changes following subconcussive head impacts.Frontiers in neurology · 2025Article
- Transiently worse postural effects after vestibulo-ocular reflex gain-down adaptation in healthy adults.Experimental brain research · 2024Article
- On-Field Evaluation of Mouthpiece-and-Helmet-Mounted Sensor Data from Head Kinematics in Football.Annals of biomedical engineering · 2024Article
- Soccer heading immediately alters brain function and brain-muscle communication.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2023Article
- The association between contact sport exposure and cervical sensorimotor dysfunction: a scoping review of implications for future musculoskeletal injury risk.Chiropractic & manual therapies · 2022Article
- REPIMPACT - a prospective longitudinal multisite study on the effects of repetitive head impacts in youth soccer.Brain imaging and behavior · 2022Review
- The Reliability of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation-Derived Corticomotor Inhibition as a Brain Health Evaluation Tool in Soccer Players.Sports medicine - open · 2022Article
- Altered Brain Functional Connectivity in Female Athletes Over the Course of a Season of Collision or Contact Sports.Neurotrauma reports · 2022Article
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Abstract
Current thinking views mild head impact (i.e., subconcussion) as an underrecognized phenomenon that has the ability to cause significant current and future detrimental neurological effects. Repeated mild impacts to the head, however, often display no observable behavioral deficits based on standard clinical tests, which may lack sensitivity. The current study investigates the effects of subconcussive impacts from soccer heading with innovative measures of vestibular function and walking stability in a pre- 0-2 h, post- 24 h post-heading repeated measures design. The heading group (n = 10) executed 10 headers with soccer balls projected at a velocity of 25 mph (11.2 m/sec) over 10 min. Subjects were evaluated 24 h before, immediately after, and 24 h after soccer heading with: the modified Balance Error Scoring System (mBESS); a walking stability task with visual feedback of trunk movement; and galvanic vestibular stimulation (GVS) while standing with eyes closed on foam. A control group (n = 10) followed the same protocol with no heading. The results showed significant decrease in trunk angle, leg angle gain, and center of mass gain relative to GVS for the heading group compared with controls. Medial-lateral trunk orientation displacement and velocity during treadmill walking increased immediately after mild head impact for the heading group compared with controls. Controls showed an improvement in mBESS scores over time, indicating a learning effect, which was not observed with the heading group. These results suggest that mild head impact leads to a transient dysfunction in vestibular processing, which deters walking stability during task performance.
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