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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2013 Apr;45(4):737–746. doi: 10.1249/MSS.0b013e3182792ed7

Table 2.

Median [25–75% interquartile range] number of head impacts for individual players sustaining at least one diagnosed concussion on days with and without injury diagnosis. Athletes sustained more total impacts and more impacts with high kinematic response (top 50th and 95th percentile) impacts on days with diagnosed concussion than days without diagnosed concussion.

Number of Daily Head Impacts Clinical Diagnosis P Value
No Concussion Concussion
> Linear 95% a 0.7 [0.4 – 1.2] 2.0 [1.0 – 3.0] < 0.001
> Rotational 95% b 0.5 [0.3 – 0.8] 1.0 [1.0 – 2.0] < 0.001
> Linear 50% a 7.2 [4.6 – 10.2] 10.0 [6.0 – 18.8] < 0.001
> Rotational 50% b 5.9 [3.7–7.9] 9.0 [4.3 – 16.0] < 0.001
All Impacts 13.8 [9.4 – 18.9] 21.0 [12.0 – 36.8] < 0.001
a

50th and 95th percentile linear acceleration = 20.5 and 62.2 g

b

50th and 95th percentile rotational acceleration = 981 and 2,975 rad/s2