Real-Time Head Acceleration Measurement in Girls’ Youth Soccer

Abstract

Head accelerations were found to exceed the majority of previous laboratory studies. None of the impacts exceeded linear acceleration tolerance values for concussion, but angular accelerations did exceed the suggested limits. Three angular acceleration measurements for heading events (4509.8, 5298.3, and 8869.1 rad·s(-2)) exceeded the concussion tolerance values, but no concussions were diagnosed during the study.