Study Investigates Head Impact and Youth Football

The Virginia Tech-Wake Forest University School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences (SBES) recently published data on head impacts and youth football, which appears in the Annals of Biomedical Engineering, and is available online for free download. The manuscript includes the details of more than 700 head impacts measured on 7- and 8-year-old youth football players.

The School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences also has announced a new study to instrument and map the head impact exposure of youth football players for all age groups, from 6 to 18 years. This program will comprise more than 240 instrumented helmets on six different football teams in Virginia and North Carolina. For more information, click here to read the full release.