Voluntary Head Rotational Velocity and Implications for Brain Injury Risk Metrics

Journal of Neurotrauma
Fidel Hernandez, David B Camarillo

Abstract

We investigated whether humans could sustain high head rotational velocities without brain injury. Rotational velocity has long been implicated for predicting concussion risk, and has recently been used to develop the rotational velocity-based Brain Injury Criterion (BrIC). To assess the efficacy of rotational velocity and BrIC for predicting concussion risk, we instrumented 9 male subjects with sensor-laden mouthguards and measured six-degree-of-freedom head accelerations for 27 rapid voluntary head rotations. The fastest rotations produced peak rotational velocities of 12.6, 17.4, and 25.0 rad/s in the coronal, sagittal, and horizontal planes, respectively. All of these exceeded the corresponding medians from padded sports impacts (8.9, 10.7, and 8.4 rad/s, respectively) and, in the case of sagittal and horizontal rotation, were within 1 standard deviation of published concussion averages. In the horizontal plane, four voluntary rotations exceeded the concussive impact median BrIC. The area under the precision-recall curve was lower in BrIC (0.49) than just using horizontal rotational acceleration (0.8), which distinguished concussive and subconcussive motions better. Voluntary motions produced less than 4% max principal stra...Continue Reading

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Dec 21, 2019·Journal of Neurotrauma·Kaveh LaksariDavid B Camarillo
Mar 13, 2019·Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology·Fidel HernandezDavid Camarillo
Nov 14, 2020·Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials·Christopher T TsuiKathryn G Todd

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