Longitudinal, prospective study of head impacts in male high school football players. by Kelsey L McAlister, Wendy J Mack, Cynthia Bir, David A Baron, Christine Som, Karen Li, Anthony Chavarria-Garcia, Siddhant Sawardekar, David Baron, Zachary Toth, Courtney Allem, Nicholas Beatty, Junko Nakayama, Ryan Kelln, Tracy Zaslow, Ravi Bansal, Bradley S Peterson

“…Compared to quarterbacks, the highest acceleration impacts were sustained by kickers/punters [β(SE) = 21.5 g's higher (7.1), p = 0.002], kick/punt returners [β(SE) = 9.3 g's higher (4.4), p = 0.03], and defensive backs [β(SE) = 4.9 g's higher (2.5), p = 0.05]. …”
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