ArticleAnnals of biomedical engineering2024
Investigation of Head Kinematics and Brain Strain Response During Soccer Heading Using a Custom-Fit Instrumented Mouthguard.
Article in Annals of biomedical engineering, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- What Factors Influence Head Acceleration During a Purposeful Header in Soccer Players? A Systematic Review.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2025Pooled it
- Non-concussive impacts, cognition, and the menstrual cycle: a proof-of-concept study of elite female footballers.Experimental brain research · 2026Article
- Does Reduced Ball Inflation Pressure in Association Football Decrease Head Impact Kinematics?Annals of biomedical engineering · 2025Article
- On-field Head Acceleration Exposure Measurement Using Instrumented Mouthguards: Missing Data Imputation for Complete Exposure Analysis.Annals of biomedical engineering · 2025Article
- Impact Biomechanics Reveal Positional and Session Type Differences in Canadian Collegiate Football.European journal of sport science · 2025Article
- Full-field, frequency-domain comparison of simulated and measured human brain deformation.Biomechanics and modeling in mechanobiology · 2025Article
- Assessment of the brain impact of soccer heading using pupillary light reflex.Frontiers in neurology · 2025Article
- Quantified Head-Ball Impacts in Soccer: A Preliminary, Prospective Study.Neurotrauma reports · 2025Article
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6 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Association football, also known as soccer in some regions, is unique in encouraging its participants to intentionally use their head to gain a competitive advantage, including scoring a goal. Repetitive head impacts are now being increasingly linked to an inflated risk of developing long-term neurodegenerative disease. This study investigated the effect of heading passes from different distances, using head acceleration data and finite element modelling to estimate brain injury risk. Seven university-level participants wore a custom-fitted instrumented mouthguard to capture linear and angular acceleration-time data. They performed 10 headers within a laboratory environment, from a combination of short, medium, and long passes. Kinematic data was then used to calculate peak linear acceleration, peak angular velocity, and peak angular acceleration as well as two brain injury metrics: head injury criterion and rotational injury criterion. Six degrees of freedom acceleration-time data were also inputted into a widely accepted finite element brain model to estimate strain-response using mean peak strain and cumulative strain damage measure values. Five headers were considered to have a 25% concussion risk. Mean peak linear acceleration equalled 26 ± 7.9 g, mean peak angular velocity 7.20 ± 2.18 rad/s, mean peak angular acceleration 1730 ± 611 rad/s
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