Citation

Freeman MD. J. Forensic Biomech. 2018; 9(1): e139.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, The author(s), Publisher OMICS Publishing Group)

DOI

10.4172/2090-2697.1000139

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

There have been more than 40 studies published since 2003 which describe a biomechanical analysis of head impacts and concussion risk among football players. A number of the publications have attempted to use these data to extrapolate concussion risk in the general population. This information, in combination with a reconstruction of a head impact event, is sometimes used in a forensic biomechanical analysis as a post hoc means of determining whether a diagnosed traumatic brain injury was truly caused by an investigated head impact.

Keywords: Concussion; Sports; Forensic; Head; Risk; Biomechanical; Injury; Spine

Language: en