Browsing by Subject "Concussion"
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Concussion and the severity of head impacts in mixed martial arts
(2020)Background: Concern about the consequences of head impacts in US football motivated researchers to investigate and develop instrumentation to measure the severity of these impacts. However, the severity of head impacts ... -
Does ball carrier technique influence tackler head injury assessment risk in elite rugby union?
(2019)The aim of this study was to use video evidence of tackles in elite level rugby union to identify ball carrier proficiency characteristics, for both lower and upper body tackles, that have a higher propensity to result in ... -
Predictive capacity of the MADYMO Multibody human body model applied to head kinematics during rugby union tackles
(MDPI - Applied Sciences, 2019)Multibody models have not yet been evaluated for reconstructing head kinematics during sports impacts. Accordingly, the goal of this study was to utilise whole-body motion data from twenty upper and mid/lower trunk rugby ...