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ArticleJournal of rehabilitation and assistive technologies engineering

Impact attenuation provided by older adult protective headwear products during simulated fall-related head impacts.

Daniel R Martel, Michelle R Tanel, Andrew C Laing

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Article in Journal of rehabilitation and assistive technologies engineering. 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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0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 39% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Daniel R MartelDepartment of Kinesiology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada.
Michelle R TanelDepartment of Kinesiology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada.
Andrew C LaingDepartment of Kinesiology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8128-011X
University of Waterloo · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionWhile protective headwear products (PHP) are designed to protect older adults from fall-related head injuries, there are limited data on their protective capacity. This study's goal was to assess the impact attenuation provided by commercially available PHP during simulated head impacts.

methodsA drop tower and Hybrid III headform measured the decrease in peak linear acceleration (

resultsThe range of

conclusionThis study demonstrates the wide range in impact attenuation across commercially available PHP, and suggests that existing products provide greater impact attenuation during back-of-head impacts. These data may inform evidence-based decisions for clinicians and consumers and help drive industry innovation.

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fallsgmaxhead injuryimpact biomechanicsOlder adultsprotective devices

Identifiers

PMID34877017
PMCPMC8645304
OpenAlexW3209385312

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