Comparison of helmeted head impact in youth and adult ice hockey

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Post, Andrew¹; De Grau, Santiago²; Ignacy, Talia²; Meehan, Andrew²; Zemek, Roger¹; Hoshizaki, Blaine²; Gilchrist, Michael D.³

Comparison of helmeted head impact in youth and adult ice hockey

Proceedings of the 2016 International IRCOBI Conference on the Biomechanics of Injury

Affiliations

¹Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, Canad

²Human Kinetics Department at the University of Ottawa, Ottowa, Canada

³School of Mechanical & Materials Engineering at the University College Dublin, Ireland
Abstract and keywords

Concussion is a common injury with potentially serious outcomes following head impacts during ice hockey. Currently little is known about the differences resulting in concussion for youth ice hockey players in comparison to adults, which biomechanical factors contribute to brain injury risk, and the implications for helmet development and design. The objective of this research was to describe the mechanisms of injury for both adult and youth ice hockey players. Helmeted 50th percentile (Adult: 18+) and 5th percentile (Youth: 9‐ 11years) Hybrid III headforms were impacted according to the masses and velocities representative of two common mechanisms of injury in ice hockey: falling and collisions. Five sites were impacted for collisions, and three for falling, with linear and rotational acceleration the measured output. A finite element model of the human brain was used to calculate maximum principal strain values for the impacts. The results indicated that there is a risk of concussion for adults for falls and collisions, whereas the risk for the youths resided in the falling events.

Keywords: adult, concussion, helmet, ice hockey, youth
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