ArticleAnnals of biomedical engineering2022
Head Impact Exposure and Biomechanics in University Varsity Women's Soccer.
Article in Annals of biomedical engineering, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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- Quantification of heading in adult football: a systematic review and evidence synthesis.British journal of sports medicine · 2025Pooled it
- What Factors Influence Head Acceleration During a Purposeful Header in Soccer Players? A Systematic Review.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2025Pooled it
- Neurophysiological Effects of Repeated Soccer Heading in Youth.Journal of biomechanical engineering · 2023Trial
- Head Acceleration Event Magnitude and Incidence Rate in Academy Rugby Union: A Comparison Across Club and International Competition.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2026Article
- Heading to guidance: understanding in-training heading demands for elite men's and women's football.British journal of sports medicine · 2025Observational
- Head impact biomechanics across men's and women's contact sports: a comparative and clustering analysis.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Impact Biomechanics Reveal Positional and Session Type Differences in Canadian Collegiate Football.European journal of sport science · 2025Article
- A Look "Inside" the Sport of Wrestling: Examination of Head Acceleration Events and Mechanisms in Female High-School Wrestlers Using Instrumented Mouthguards.Annals of biomedical engineering · 2025Article
- Exploring Sex-Based Variations in Head Kinematics During Soccer Heading.Annals of biomedical engineering · 2025Article
- High-magnitude headers are not associated with structural and functional brain changes in active high-level football (soccer) players.BMJ open sport & exercise medicine · 2025Article
- Heading in Female Soccer: A Scoping Systematic Review.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Immediate and Transient Perturbances in EEG Within Seconds Following Controlled Soccer Head Impact.Annals of biomedical engineering · 2024Article
- Head Kinematics and Injury Analysis in Elite Bobsleigh Athletes Throughout a World Cup Tour.Journal of athletic training · 2024Article
- Head impact differences in blind football between Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games: video-based observational study.BMJ open · 2024Observational
- Individualized monitoring of longitudinal heading exposure in soccer.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Hyper-acute effects of sub-concussive soccer headers on brain function and hemodynamics.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2023Article
- Blink-related EEG oscillations are neurophysiological indicators of subconcussive head impacts in female soccer players: a preliminary study.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2023Article
- Influence of the frame of reference on head acceleration events recorded by instrumented mouthguards in community rugby players.BMJ open sport & exercise medicine · 2022Article
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Abstract
Soccer is a unique sport where players purposefully and voluntarily use their unprotected heads to manipulate the direction of the ball. There are limited soccer head impact exposure data to further study brain injury risks. The objective of the current study was to combine validated mouthpiece sensors with comprehensive video analysis methods to characterize head impact exposure and biomechanics in university varsity women's soccer. Thirteen female soccer athletes were instrumented with mouthpiece sensors to record on-field head impacts during practices, scrimmages, and games. Multi-angle video was obtained and reviewed for all on-field activity to verify mouthpiece impacts and identify contact scenarios. We recorded 1307 video-identified intentional heading impacts and 1011 video-verified sensor impacts. On average, athletes experienced 1.83 impacts per athlete-exposure, with higher exposure in practices than games/scrimmages. Median and 95th percentile peak linear and peak angular accelerations were 10.0, 22.2 g, and 765, 2296 rad/s
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