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      Highlights from day three of the EuroSciCon 2015 Sports Science Summit

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      conference, EuroSciCon, exercise, physiology, sports science

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          Abstract

          This EuroSciCon Sports Science Summit represented a significant gathering of leading professionals in the field of sports science. The conference was held on 13–15 January 2015 at the O2 arena, London, UK. The chairman on the third day was Mr Greg Robertson, a specialist trainee Orthopedic surgeon from Edinburgh. The conference attracted over 80 attendants from all over the world, with 32 presentations from invited speakers and peer-reviewed submissions. This meeting report provides a summary of the best abstracts from the conference.

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          The Epidemiology, Morbidity, and Outcome of Soccer-Related Fractures in a Standard Population

          Soccer is the most common cause of sporting fracture, but little is known about patient outcome after such fractures.
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            Current and future concepts in helmet and sports injury prevention.

            Since the introduction of head protection, a decrease in sports-related traumatic brain injuries has been reported. The incidence of concussive injury, however, has remained the same or on the rise. These trends suggest that current helmets and helmet standards are not effective in protecting against concussive injuries. This article presents a literature review that describes the discrepancy between how helmets are designed and tested and how concussions occur. Most helmet standards typically use a linear drop system and measure criterion such as head Injury criteria, Gadd Severity Index, and peak linear acceleration based on research involving severe traumatic brain injuries. Concussions in sports occur in a number of different ways that can be categorized into collision, falls, punches, and projectiles. Concussive injuries are linked to strains induced by rotational acceleration. Because helmet standards use a linear drop system simulating fall-type injury events, the majority of injury mechanisms are neglected. In response to the need for protection against concussion, helmet manufacturers have begun to innovate and design helmets using other injury criteria such as rotational acceleration and brain tissue distortion measures via finite-element analysis. In addition to these initiatives, research has been conducted to develop impact protocols that more closely reflect how concussions occur in sports. Future research involves a better understanding of how sports-related concussions occur and identifying variables that best describe them. These variables can be used to guide helmet innovation and helmet standards to improve the quality of helmet protection for concussive injury.
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              Examination of the relationship between peak linear and angular accelerations to brain deformation metrics in hockey helmet impacts.

              Ice hockey is a contact sport which has a high incidence of brain injury. The current methods of evaluating protective devices use peak resultant linear acceleration as their pass/fail criteria, which are not fully representative of brain injuries as a whole. The purpose of this study was to examine how the linear and angular acceleration loading curves from a helmeted impact influence currently used brain deformation injury metrics. A helmeted Hybrid III headform was impacted in five centric and non-centric impact sites to elicit linear and angular acceleration responses. These responses were examined through the use of a brain model. The results indicated that when the helmet is examined using peak resultant linear acceleration alone, they are similar and protective, but when a 3D brain deformation response is used to examine the helmets, there are risks of brain injury with lower linear accelerations which would pass standard certifications for safety.
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                Journal
                Future Sci OA
                Future Sci OA
                FSO
                Future Science OA
                Future Science Ltd (London, UK )
                2056-5623
                November 2015
                01 November 2015
                : 1
                : 3
                : FSO14
                Affiliations
                [1 ]Department of Surgery & Cancer, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London Charing Cross Hospital, London, UK
                Author notes
                *Author for correspondence: amit.chawla10@ 123456imperial.ac.uk
                Article
                10.4155/fso.15.12
                5137910
                c567403f-f4ae-4a7f-b02b-b05eff8e3846
                © A Chawla & A McGregor

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License

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