What is it about?
Wireless telemetry to record head impacts
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Why is it important?
SPORT RELATED CONCUSSION IS A PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM
Perspectives
Working with children at grassroots level sport is both rewarding and challenging. Given the importance of the topic there is a need for valid and reliable information to increase awareness of the dangers of head impacts in a junior sporting context.
Trevor Clark
Australian College of Physical Education
The shear volume of head impacts received during match play is alarming. Working with underage players is important to understand the problem.
Dr Conor Gissane
St Mary's University
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This page is a summary of: Head impacts in a junior rugby league team measured with a wireless head impact sensor: an exploratory analysis, Journal of Neurosurgery Pediatrics, January 2017, Journal of Neurosurgery Publishing Group (JNSPG),
DOI: 10.3171/2016.7.peds1684.
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