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The Concussion Debate: Can Playing Contact Sports Cause Brain Damage?

The Real Science of Sport Podcast

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Can You Measure the Impact of a Continuous Impact on a Player?

In the Women's World Cup, 3% of all tackles involved a head acceleration exceeding 35 G's. Mouthguards means we can understand 300 of these events in one day. We could make players tackle each other for 30 minutes and then measure with video what head acceleration is caused. And we start saying, okay, 90% of concussions happen above a certain linear acceleration, rotational acceleration. So we'll have a little bit more information about what causes the injury based on the acceleration of the head.

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