I/UCRC: Looking beyond catastrophic brain injuries to mild traumatic brain injury -fundamental research to advance new frontiers in injury prevention

儿童伤害预防研究中心（CChIPS）提案# 1230312 Flaura Winston该提案旨在为位于费城儿童医院的儿童伤害预防研究中心（CChIPS）提供资金。基础研究的资金申请由NSF批准的招标（NSF 11-570）授权。征集邀请I/UCRC提交支持行业定义的基础研究的提案。脑震荡（也称为轻度创伤性脑损伤- mTBI）不仅是儿童在车祸中最常见的损伤，而且往往导致影响儿童生活质量的不良后果。了解儿童mTBI的生物力学不仅仅是汽车损伤预防，还推动了CChIPS扩展到运动损伤预防的战略目标。这项基础研究提案解决了行业对数据的需求，以推动预防儿童mTBI的安全创新。这项拟议研究的主要目标是：1）验证头盔传感器测量戴头盔的青少年曲棍球运动员头部加速度的能力，2）量化青少年曲棍球运动员在典型赛季中经历的头部生物力学，并将其与测量的神经认知缺陷相关联。通过提供与医疗数据相关的脑震荡相关的损伤机制和损伤指标的深入了解，这项研究将导致新的ATD（人体测量测试设备），损伤标准和测试协议。这些新工具将推动汽车和运动设备行业的产品开发周期，以预防儿童mTBI。拟议的工作将有助于新的数据相关的工程指标与神经和认知的结果与头部的影响，以青春期前。该项目还有助于在瑞典建立CChIPS国际网站，并为吸引运动伤害预防行业的新成员提供平台。

Center for Child Injury Prevention Studies (CChIPS) Proposal # 1230312 Flaura Winston This proposal seeks funding for the Center for Child Injury Prevention Studies (CChIPS) located at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Funding Requests for Fundamental Research are authorized by an NSF approved solicitation, NSF 11-570. The solicitation invites I/UCRCs to submit proposals for support of industry-defined fundamental research. Concussions (also known as mild traumatic brain injuries - mTBI) are not only the most common injury sustained by children in crashes but often lead to poor outcomes that affect a child's quality of life. Understanding the biomechanics of mTBI for children goes beyond automotive injury prevention and advances a CChIPS strategic goal of expansion into sports injury prevention. This Fundamental Research proposal addresses industrys need for data to drive safety innovation on preventing mTBI in children. The primary objectives in this proposed research are to: 1) validate the ability of helmet-based sensors to measure the head acceleration of a helmeted youth hockey player and 2) quantify the head biomechanics experienced by youth hockey players across a typical season and correlate these to measured neurocognitive deficits. By providing an in-depth understanding of injury mechanisms and injury metrics associated with concussion linked with medical data, this research will lead to new ATD (anthropometric test device), injury criteria and testing protocols. These new tools will fuel the cycle of product development for technology to prevent mTBI in children both for the automotive and sports equipment industries. The proposed work will contribute novel data relating engineering metrics to neurological and cognitive outcomes associated with head impacts to the pre-adolescent. This project also facilitates creation of an international site of CChIPS in Sweden and provides a platform for attracting new members from the sports injury prevention industry.