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Use of headgear in football - A computer simulation of the human head and neck

Document type:
Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Author(s):
Lehner, S.; Wallrapp, O.; Senner, V.
Abstract:
Although head injuries in football having approximately the same incidence as in American football and ice hockey, head protectors are barely used for prophylaxis. A detailed human head-neck model including force elements describing the material behaviour of human soft tissue structures such as ligaments, tendons, cartilage layers, intervertebral discs and muscles has been developed using multi-body system (MBS) modelling techniques to investigate the effectiveness of commercial headgear. For ba...     »
Journal title:
Procedia Engineering
Year:
2010
Journal volume:
2
Journal issue:
2
Pages contribution:
3263--3268
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