Citation

Patton DA. Appl. Bionics Biomech. 2016; 2016: e7049743.

Affiliation

Australian Collaboration for Research into Injury in Sport and Its Prevention (ACRISP), Federation University Australia, Ballarat, VIC, Australia; Sports Injury Prevention Research Centre (SIPRC), Faculty of Kinesiology, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, Hindawi Publishing)

DOI

10.1155/2016/7049743

PMID

27594780

Abstract

Contact, collision, and combat sports have more head impacts as compared to noncontact sports; therefore, such sports are uniquely suited to the investigation of head impact biomechanics. Recent advances in technology have enabled the development of instrumented equipment, which can estimate the head impact kinematics of human subjects in vivo. Literature pertaining to head impact measurement devices was reviewed and usage, in terms of validation and field studies, of such devices was discussed. Over the past decade, instrumented equipment has recorded millions of impacts in the laboratory, on the field, in the ring, and on the ice. Instrumented equipment is not without limitations; however, in vivo head impact data is crucial to investigate head injury mechanisms and further the understanding of concussion.

Language: en