When to pull the trigger: conceptual considerations for approximating head acceleration events using instrumented mouthguards

J Tooby, K Till, A Gardner, K Stokes, G Tierney… - Sports medicine, 2024 - Springer
Head acceleration events (HAEs) are acceleration responses of the head following external
short-duration collisions. The potential risk of brain injury from a single high-magnitude HAE …

Instrumented mouthguards in elite-level men's and women's rugby union: the incidence and propensity of head acceleration events in matches

J Tooby, J Woodward, R Tucker, B Jones, É Falvey… - Sports medicine, 2024 - Springer
Objectives The aim of this study was to examine head acceleration event (HAE) propensity
and incidence during elite-level men's and women's rugby union matches. Methods …

The incidence and propensity of head acceleration events in a season of men's and women's English elite-level club rugby union matches

D Allan, J Tooby, L Starling, R Tucker, É Falvey… - Sports Medicine, 2024 - Springer
Objectives To describe and compare the incidence and propensity of head acceleration
events (HAEs) using instrumented mouthguards (iMG) by playing position in a season of …

Head acceleration events in male community Rugby players: an observational cohort study across four playing grades, from Under-13 to senior men

MD Bussey, D Salmon, J Romanchuk, B Nanai… - Sports Medicine, 2024 - Springer
Objectives The aim of this study was to examine the cumulative head acceleration event
(HAE) exposure in male rugby players from the Under-13 (U13) to senior club level over 4 …

An instrumented mouthguard for real-time measurement of head kinematics under a large range of sport specific accelerations

CM Jones, K Austin, SN Augustus, KJ Nicholas, X Yu… - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
Background: Head impacts in sports can produce brain injuries. The accurate quantification
of head kinematics through instrumented mouthguards (iMG) can help identify underlying …

How to harness and improve on video analysis for youth rugby player safety: a narrative review

IJ Shill, SW West, J Brown, F Wilson… - BMJ open sport & …, 2023 - bmjopensem.bmj.com
Video analysis is a useful tool for injury surveillance in rugby union. There are few video
analysis studies in the professional female game, with most studies published in the male …

A computational pipeline towards large-scale and multiscale modeling of traumatic axonal injury

C Zhang, L Bartels, A Clansey, J Kloiber… - Computers in Biology …, 2024 - Elsevier
Contemporary biomechanical modeling of traumatic brain injury (TBI) focuses on either the
global brain as an organ or a representative tiny section of a single axon. In addition, while it …

A sensor-enabled cloud-based computing platform for computational brain biomechanics

RR Menghani, A Das, RH Kraft - Computer Methods and Programs in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Background and Objectives Driven by the risk of repetitive head trauma, sensors
have been integrated into mouthguards to measure head impacts in contact sports and …

The application of match‐event and instrumented mouthguard data to inform match limits: An example using rugby union Premiership and rugby league Super …

T Sawczuk, M Cross, C Owen, G Roe… - European Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The study aimed to illustrate how contact (from match‐event data) and head acceleration
event (HAE)(from instrumented mouthguard [iMG]) data can be combined to inform match …

Heads Up! a biomechanical pilot investigation of soccer heading using instrumented mouthguards (iMGs)

D Sokol-Randell, OW Stelzer-Hiller, D Allan… - Applied Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Soccer players purposefully head the ball, raising concerns about reduced tolerance to
concussion and potential long-term brain health. By combining qualitative video analysis …