Differences in Head Impact Exposures Between Youth Tackle and Flag Football Games and Practices: Potential Implications for Prevention Strategies.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Interventions designed to reduce the risk for head impacts and concussion in youth football have increased over the past decade; however, understanding of the role of regular game play on head impact exposure among youth tackle and flag football athletes is currently limited.

Purpose

To explore head impact exposure among youth tackle and flag football athletes (age range, 6-14 years) during both practices and games.

Study design

Cohort study; Level of evidence, 2.

Methods

Using the Vector MouthGuard sensor, the authors collected head impact data from 524 tackle and flag youth football athletes over the course of a football season. Quantities of interest were estimated from regression models using Bayesian methods.

Results

For impacts ≥10g</

SUBMITTER: Sarmiento K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8335321 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature