Evidence map›Paper›PMID 40377738›Full record

ArticleAnnals of biomedical engineering2025

Laboratory Evaluation of a Wearable Instrumented Headband for Rotational Head Kinematics Measurement.

Anu Tripathi, Yang Wan, Sushant Malave, Sheila Turcsanyi, Alice Lux Fawzi, Alison Brooks, Haneesh Kesari, Traci Snedden, Peter Ferrazzano, Christian Franck and 1 more

Abstract read
PubMed Full text at PMC Publisher
In one paragraph

Article in Annals of biomedical engineering, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
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.

  1. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors.

Anu TripathiDepartment of Engineering, Robert Morris University, Moon Township, PA, USA.
Yang WanSchool of Engineering, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA.
Sushant MalaveTeam Wendy, Cleveland, OH, USA.
Sheila TurcsanyiWaisman Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.
Alice Lux FawziDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.
Alison BrooksDepartment of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.
Haneesh KesariSchool of Engineering, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA.
Traci SneddenSchool of Nursing, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.
Peter FerrazzanoWaisman Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.
Christian FranckDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.
Rika Wright CarlsenDepartment of Engineering, Robert Morris University, Moon Township, PA, USA. carlsen@rmu.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5743-1130

Funding

Office of Naval Research N00014-21-1-2044Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison 136-AAI3378
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeMild traumatic brain injuries (mTBI) are a highly prevalent condition with heterogeneous outcomes between individuals. A key factor governing brain tissue deformation and the risk of mTBI is the rotational kinematics of the head. Instrumented mouthguards are a widely accepted method for measuring rotational head motions, owing to their robust sensor-skull coupling. However, wearing mouthguards is not feasible in all situations, especially for long-term data collection. Therefore, alternative wearable devices are needed. In this study, we present an improved design and data processing scheme for an instrumented headband.

methodsOur instrumented headband utilizes an array of inertial measurement units (IMUs) and a new data processing scheme based on continuous wavelet transforms to address sources of error in the IMU measurements. The headband performance was evaluated in the laboratory on an anthropomorphic test device, which was impacted with a soccer ball to replicate soccer heading.

resultsWhen comparing the measured peak rotational velocities (PRV) and peak rotational accelerations (PRA) between the reference sensors and the headband for impacts to the front of the head, the correlation coefficients (r) were 0.80 and 0.63, and the normalized root mean square error (NRMSE) values were 0.20 and 0.28, respectively. However, when considering all impact locations, r dropped to 0.42 and 0.34 and NRMSE increased to 0.5 and 0.41 for PRV and PRA, respectively.

conclusionThis new instrumented headband improves upon previous headband designs in reconstructing the rotational head kinematics resulting from frontal soccer ball impacts, providing a potential alternative to instrumented mouthguards.

Indexed as

HeadHead MovementsWearable Electronic DevicesAccelerationBiomechanical PhenomenaHumansRotationContinuous wavelet transformInstrumented headbandMild traumatic brain injurySensor arraySoccer headers

Identifiers

PMID40377738
PMCPMC12283827

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.