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ArticleFrontiers in sports and active living2019

The Effectiveness of Protective Headgear in Attenuating Ball-to-Forehead Impacts in Water Polo.

Nicholas J Cecchi, Theophil J Oros, Derek C Monroe, Gianna M Fote, Wyatt X Moscoso, James W Hicks, David J Reinkensmeyer

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Article in Frontiers in sports and active living, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Authors and funding

7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Nicholas J CecchiDepartment of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States.
Theophil J OrosDepartment of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States.
Derek C MonroeDepartment of Neurology, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States.
Gianna M FoteDepartment of Biological Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States.
Wyatt X MoscosoDepartment of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States.
James W HicksDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States.
David J ReinkensmeyerDepartment of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States.
University of California, Irvine · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recent reports have demonstrated that there is a serious risk of head impact and injury in water polo. The use of protective headgear in contact sports is a commonly accepted strategy for reducing the risk of head injury, but there are few available protective headgears for use in water polo. Many of those that are available are banned by the sport's governing bodies due to a lack of published data supporting the effectiveness of those headgears in reducing head impact kinematics. To address this gap in knowledge, we launched a water polo ball at the forehead of an anthropomorphic testing device fitted with either a standard water polo headgear or one of two protective headgears. We selected a range of launch speeds representative of those observed across various athlete ages. Mixed-model ANOVAs revealed that, relative to standard headgear, protective headgears reduced peak linear acceleration (by 10.8-21.6%;

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biomechanicsconcussionhead accelerationhead injuryhead kinematicshelmetsports

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PMID33344926
PMCPMC7739673
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