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Impact Mitigation in Modern Football Helmets: Advances and Limitations of Position-Specific Designs

It has been established that repetitive head impacts lead to the accrual of changes in brain function, structure, and chemistry. The helmet is the primary ...

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Translating Professional Football Helmet Tests to Full Body Finite Element (FE) Simulations: A Reproducible Field-to-Simulation Workflow

This article presents a reproducible field-to-simulation workflow that translates real football plays into solver-ready boundary conditions for a ...

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Participants in American football experience repetitive head impacts that induce negative changes in neurocognitive function over the course of a single season. This study aimed to quantify the transfer function connecting the force input to the measured output acceleration of the helmet system to provide a comparison of the impact attenuation of various modern American football helmets. Impact mitigation varied considerably between helmet models and with location for each helmet model. The current data indicate that helmet mass is a key variable driving force attenuation, however flexible helmet shells, helmet shell cutouts, and more compliant padding can improve energy absorption.

Design Considerations for the Attenuation of Translational and Rotational Accelerations in American Football Helmets.

To evaluate the feasibility of a novel method for occipitocervical fixation (OCF) through the endonasal corridor.

Endoscopic Endonasal Occipitocervical Fixation with a Customized Three-Dimensional Printed Titanium Plate-Screw Construct: A Cadaveric Feasibility Study.

The effect of digital edema on tensile forces in zone II flexor tendon injuries has not been extensively investigated. The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of digital edema on flexor tensile forces following six-strand repair of a zone II flexor tendon laceration and to assess how these forces change throughout the total arc of motion.

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Publication title	2026
Publication title	2026

Article	Year
Design Considerations for the Attenuation of Translational and Rotational Accelerations in American Football Helmets. Journal of biomechanical engineering\| PubMed ID: 36628996	2023
Endoscopic Endonasal Occipitocervical Fixation with a Customized Three-Dimensional Printed Titanium Plate-Screw Construct: A Cadaveric Feasibility Study. World neurosurgery\| PubMed ID: 38996963	2024
Effect of Edema on Flexor Tendon Tensile Forces Following Zone II Repair: A Biomechanical Analysis in a Cadaveric Model. The Journal of hand surgery\| PubMed ID: 41483004	2026

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