- Title
- Verifying Head Impacts Recorded by a Wearable Sensor using Video Footage in Rugby League: a Preliminary Study
- Creator
- Carey, Lauchlan; Stanwell, Peter; Terry, Douglas P.; McIntosh, Andrew S.; Caswell, Shane V.; Iverson, Grant L.; Gardner, Andrew J.
- Relation
- Sports Medicine - Open Vol. 5, no. 9
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40798-019-0182-3
- Publisher
- Springer
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2019
- Description
- Background: Rugby league is a full-contact collision sport with an inherent risk of concussion. Wearable instrumented technology was used to observe and characterize the level of exposure to head impacts during game play. Purpose: To verify the impacts recorded by the x-patch™ with video analysis. Study design: Observational case series. Methods: The x-patch™ was used on eight men’s semi-professional rugby league players during the 2016 Newcastle Rugby League competition (five forwards and three backs). Game day footage was recorded by a trained videographer using a single camera located at the highest midfield location to verify the impact recorded by the x-patch™. Videographic and accelerometer data were time synchronized. Results: The x-patch™ sensors recorded a total of 779 impacts ≥ 20 g during the games, of which 732 (94.0%) were verified on video. In addition, 817 impacts were identified on video that did not record an impact on the sensors. The number of video-verified impacts ≥ 20 g, per playing hour, was 7.8 for forwards and 4.8 for backs (range = 3.9–19.0). Impacts resulting in a diagnosed concussion had much greater peak linear acceleration (M = 76.1 g, SD = 17.0) than impacts that did not result in a concussion (M = 34.2g, SD = 18.0; Cohen’s d = 2.4). Conclusions: The vast majority (94%) of impacts ≥ 20 g captured by the x-patch™ sensor were video verified in semi-professional rugby league games. The use of a secondary source of information to verify impact events recorded by wearable sensors is beneficial in clarifying game events and exposure levels.
- Subject
- head impacts; rugby league; wearable sensors; accelerometer; video review
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1449551
- Identifier
- uon:43693
- Identifier
- ISSN:2198-9761
- Rights
- © The Author(s). 2019 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made
- Language
- eng
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