Video Analysis and Verification of Direct Head Impacts Recorded by Wearable Sensors in Junior Rugby League Players.

Background: Rugby league is a high-intensity collision sport that carries a risk of concussion. Youth athletes are considered to be more vulnerable and take longer to recover from concussion than adult athletes.

Purpose: To review head impact events in elite-level junior representative rugby league and to verify and describe characteristics of X-patch-recorded impacts via video analysis.

Verifying Head Impacts Recorded by a Wearable Sensor using Video Footage in Rugby League: a Preliminary Study.

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.