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title

Evaluation of Head Injury Biomechanics in Youth Football and Women's Collegiate Soccer Headers

author

Milef, Gabriella M.

abstract

Football and soccer are contact sports associated with high rates of concussion. Most of the head impacts that occur in these sports are subconcussive, and while not associated with the overt signs of a concussion, are suggested to lead to short- and long-term changes in brain structure and function. Most research on head impact exposure (HIE) in both sports is limited to summary statistics of peak kinematics in live practice and game settings.

subject

Biomechanics

Brain Strain

Football

Head Impact

Head Injury

Soccer

contributor

Urban, Jillian E. (committee chair)

Stitzel, Joel D. (committee member)

Miles, Christopher M. (committee member)

date

2021-06-03T08:36:25Z (accessioned)

2021 (issued)

degree

Biomedical Engineering (discipline)

embargo

2026-05-17 (terms)

2026-05-17 (liftdate)

identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/10339/98852 (uri)

language

en (iso)

publisher

Wake Forest University

type

Thesis