TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2020//
TI  - Head acceleration event metrics in youth contact sports more dependent on sport than level of play
JO  - Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part H: Journal of engineering in medicine
A1  - Lee, Taylor
A1  - Lycke, Roy
A1  - Auger, Joshua
A1  - Music, Jacob
A1  - Dziekan, Michael
A1  - Newman, Sharlene
A1  - Talavage, Thomas
A1  - Leverenz, Larry
A1  - Nauman, Eric
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - The goal of the study was to evaluate how repetitive head traumas sustained by athletes in contact sports depend on sport and level of play. A total of 16 middle school football players, 107 high school football players, and 65 high school female soccer players participated. Players were separated into levels of play: middle school (MS), freshman (FR), junior varsity (JV), junior varsity-varsity (JV-V), and varsity (V). xPatch sensors were used to measure peak translational and angular accelerations (PTA and PAA, respectively) for each head acceleration event (HAE) during practice and game sessions. Data were analyzed using a custom MATLAB program to compare metrics that have been correlated with functional neurological changes: session metrics (median HAEs per contact session), season metrics (total HAEs, cumulative PTA/PAA), and regressions (cumulative PTA/PAA versus total HAEs, total HAEs versus median HAEs per contact session). Football players had greater session (p<.001) and season (p<.001) metrics than soccer players, but soccer players had a significantly greater player average PAA per HAE than football players (p<.001). Middle school football players had similar session and season metrics to high school level athletes. In conclusion, sport has a greater influence on HAE characteristics than level of play.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0954-4119
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0954411920970812
ID  - ref1
ER  -