Table 2

Comparison of head acceleration events between iMG and CG frames of reference for each direction of head motion

Head impact locationHAE countPAA (rad/s2)PLAiMG (g)PLACG (g)AgreementRMSD (g)NRMS (%)
MedianIQRMedianIQRMedianIQRLCCC95% CIMedianRangeMedianRange
TopN=1831284.89(1084.01)16.3(12.27)19.07(12.95)0.71(0.64 to 0.77)2.50(14.40)13.78(36.29)
Front HighN=1801214.56(1004.81)16.61(8.99)16.73(9.42)0.73(0.66 to 0.76)2.19(12.87)12.89(44.19)
Front LowN=721092.28(1166.76)21.38(20.07)15.36(10.47)0.78(0.70 to 0.85)2.01(28.33)12.65(29.22)
Back HighN=1481119.39(855.99)15.42(9.93)15.22(11.42)0.88(0.84 to 0.91)2.48(16.09)13.73(45.16)
Back LowN=381407.36(902.01)11.31(9.37)15.22(11.42)0.51(0.27 to 0.67)1.87(8.55)10.06(26.96)
Left HighN=551190.03(1041.57)13.36(7.11)15.41(11.32)0.49(0.29 to 0.66)2.20(16.49)13.81(41.28)
Left LowN=381187.98(853.45)15.97(15.01)17.92(12.09)0.74(0.57 to 0.85)2.37(8.38)13.16(38.26)
Right HighN=851065.61(688.36)12.27(5.44)15.46(9.13)0.66(0.54 to 0.76)2.40(37.70)13.25(34.40)
Right LowN=261180.15(831.94)17.39(11.68)16.77(6.99)0.60(0.33 to 0.78)2.19(6.27)12.55(50.80)
TotalN=8251185.79(981.8)15.7(11.0)17.1(10.9)0.7(0.68 to 0.74)3.0(38.0)13.4(51.3)
  • CG, center of gravity; HAE, head acceleration event; iMG, instrumented mouthguard; LCCC, Lin’s Concordance Correlation Coefficients; NRMS, RMS was normalised; PAA, peak angular acceleration; PLA, peak linear acceleration; RMSD, root mean square deviation.