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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Nov 27.
Published in final edited form as: J Neurosurg Pediatr. 2017 Sep 12;20(5):489–497. doi: 10.3171/2017.5.PEDS16627

TABLE 2.

Summary of HIE data for each practice drill

Drill No. of Impacts No of I mpacts/Minute/Player Linear Acceleration (g) Rotational Acceleration (rad/sec2)
Mean 95% Cl 50th Percentile 95th Percentile 50th Percentile 95th Percentile
Dummy/sled tackling 9 0.09a,b,c,d 0.05–0.17 18.0 48.7 833.0 1576.3
Install 1197 0.15e,f,g,h 0.14–0.17 19.7 51.7 954.4 2280.0
Special teams 52 0.13i,j,k 0.09–0.17 18.9 54.7 835.0 2152.8
Multiplayer tackle 164 0.59a,e,i,l,m,n 0.41–0.85 21.4 44.1  1018.4 2279.7
Oklahoma 148 0.40b,f,j,o,p 0.29–0.54 22.9 61.6 1074.3 2958.0
One-on-one 102 0.31c,g,k,q 0.24–0.42 24.2 66.4 915.0 2584.2
Open-field tackling 50 0.18l 0.13–0.24 24.7 97.8 1326.4 3816.3
Passing 27 0.15m,o 0.11–0.21 17.0 45.9 950.3 2415.5
Position skill work 152 0.09h,n,p,q,r,s 0.07–0.11 19.5 69.2 905.9 2556.6
Scrimmage 89 0.29r 0.18–0.45 18.9 50.8 869.8 2197.6
Tackling drill stations 135 0.29d,s 0.19–0.45 21.2 63.3 1010.2 2524.5
a–s

Drills that share the same superscript have mean numbers of impacts per minute per player that differ at p < 0.05.