A new biomechanical assessment of mild traumatic brain injury. Part 2: results and conclusions.

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Newman, J. Barr, C. Beusenberg, M. Fournier, E. Shewchenko, N. Welbourne, E. & Withnall, C.
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Abstract

This paper follows Part 1 that was presented at the 1999 IRCOBI conference (See ITRD E203645). A methodology, described in Part 1, has been developed that permits the reconstruction of certain incidents that occur in American football. Twenty-four cases of helmeted head impact, for which concussion was diagnosed in 9 cases, have been replicated with Hybrid III Anthropometric Test Devices (ATDs). Rigid body translational and rotational head accelerations have been measured in each case. Correlations between head injury and head kinematics have been sought. Peak translational and peak rotational acceleration and velocity, Head Injury Criterion (HIC) and the C.W. Gadd Severity Index (SI), as well as the GAMBIT have all been considered. A new approach employing the maximum value of the global rate of energy dissipation has proven to provide the best correlation between concussion probability and head kinematics. This new relationship provides a basis for a new HIC function, the Head Impact Power (HIP). (A)

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C 19084 (In: C 19067) /84 / ITRD E206439
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In: Proceedings of the 2000 International IRCOBI Conference on the Biomechanics of Impacts, Montpellier, France, September 20-22, 2000, p. 223-233, 15 ref.

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