Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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8593047 | Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport | 2018 | 24 Pages |
Abstract
These results provide preliminary evidence that less efficient oculomotor performance on three different oculomotor tasks is associated with increased incidence of head impacts during a competitive ice hockey season. The variability of prosaccade latency, the average self-paced saccade velocity and the variability of gaze velocity during predictable smooth pursuit all related to increased head impacts. Future work is needed to further understand player initiated collisions, but this is an important first step toward understanding strategies to reduce incidence of injury risk in ice hockey, and potentially contact sports more generally.
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Authors
Adam W. Kiefer, Christopher DiCesare, Patrick Nalepka, Kim Barber Foss, Staci Thomas, Gregory D. Myer,