The GADD Severity Index and measurements of acceleration when heading an Association football.

Author(s)
Johnson, W. Skorecki, J. & Reid, S.R.
Year
Abstract

A test has been done in which a human target and a weighted standard punch-ball were impacted with a football. It has been possible to make an assessment of the likely severity of the impact. The single event of direct heading of a football is not likely to be damaging. However, considering the rapidity with which this index increases with acceleration, an acceleration component resulting from rotation could conceivably cause the severity to exceed the limit of tolerance.

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Publication

Library number
B 8476 (In: B 8199) /84/ IRRD 217059
Source

In: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on the Biomechanics of Trauma, (IRCOBI), Birmingham, 1975; p. 187-196, 6 fig., 1 graph., 1 tab.

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