Measuring blunt force head impacts in athletes
(Messung stumpfer Kraftwirkung am Kopf von Sportlern)
Although concussion continues to be a major source of acute and chronic injuries, concussion injury mechanisms and risk functions are ill-defined. This lack of definition has hindered efforts to develop standardized concussion monitoring, safety testing, and protective countermeasures. To overcome this knowledge gap, we have developed, tested, and deployed a head impact monitoring mouthguard (IMM) system.
Materials and Methods: The IMM system was first calibrated in 731 laboratory tests. Versus reference, Laboratory IMM data fit a linear model, with results close to the ideal linear model of form y = x + 0, R2 = 1. Next, during on-field play involving n = 54 amateur American athletes in football and boxing, there were tens of thousands of events collected by the IMM. A total of 890 true-positive head impacts were confirmed using a combination of signal processing and National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke/National Institutes of Health Common Data Elements methods.
Results: The median and 99th percentile of peak scalar linear acceleration and peak angular acceleration were 20 and 50 g and 1,700 and 4,600 rad/s2, respectively. No athletes were diagnosed with concussion.
Conclusions: While these data are useful for preliminary human tolerance limits, a larger population must be used to quantify real-world dose response as a function of impact magnitude, direction, location, and accumulation. This work is ongoing.
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Schlagworte: | Boxen American Football Messverfahren Kraft Kopf Gehirn Verletzung Krankheit Schaden Gesundheit |
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Notationen: | Kampfsportarten Spielsportarten Biowissenschaften und Sportmedizin |
Tagging: | Gehirnerschütterung |
DOI: | 10.1093/milmed/usz334 |
Veröffentlicht in: | Military Medicine |
Veröffentlicht: |
2020
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Jahrgang: | 185 |
Heft: | 1S |
Seiten: | 190-196 |
Dokumentenarten: | Artikel |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Level: | hoch |