Background The long-term effect of repeated head impacts during purposeful heading in football is largely unknown. However, evidence suggests that head acceleration during purposeful heading may be ...

1 Department of Biomedical Engineering, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston Salem, USA 2 School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences, Virginia Tech – Wake Forest University, Winston ...

Sports head impacts have been associated with both acute and long-term brain trauma. While wearable sensors provide valuable biomechanics insight, most studies focus on single sports, and the ...

Researchers from the University of Michigan found significant pupillary changes in high-school football athletes after they had sustained a high-acceleration head impact. The changes were detected ...

Researchers used quantitative pupillometry to detect pupillary changes in high-school athletes after they sustained a high-acceleration head impact. These pupillary changes, indicative of changes in ...