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abstract

Soccer is the most popular sport in the world, and although it is not often thought of as a collision sport, the concussion rate in soccer is relatively high, especially among women. At the collegiate level, the concussion rate of women’s soccer is nearly double that of men’s soccer and only slightly lower than football. However, most head impacts that occur in soccer are non-concussive (i.e., they do not result in acute signs or symptoms of concussion). Still, there is evidence that exposure to repetitive head impacts is associated with functional and structural changes to the brain even in the absence of a clinically diagnosed concussion. To try to understand the biomechanical basis for these changes, previous studies have quantified on-field head impact exposure in soccer, but the measurements of head kinematics (i.e., head motion) from these studies may be limited by the accuracy of the wearable sensors used.

subject

concussion

head impact exposure

headers

repetitive head impacts

soccer

subconcussive impacts

contributor

Filben, Tanner Matthew (author)

Stitzel, Joel D (committee chair)

Miles, Christopher M (committee member)

Urban, Jillian E (committee member)

date

2020-05-29T08:35:38Z (accessioned)

2020 (issued)

degree

Biomedical Engineering (discipline)

2025-05-18 (liftdate)

embargo

2025-05-18 (terms)

identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/10339/96791 (uri)

language

en (iso)

publisher

Wake Forest University

title

INVESTIGATIONS OF HEAD IMPACT FREQUENCY AND MAGNITUDE IN COLLEGIATE WOMEN’S SOCCER

type

Thesis