The Etiology of Impact Related Concussion for Catchers and Umpires in Baseball

The information presented herein attempts to quantify the conditions surrounding concussive impacts from foul tips to the masks of catchers and umpires in baseball. Media reports of such occasions were researched on video and pitch speed data from the Pitch F/X system recorded to suggest speeds and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Beyer, Jeffrey Andrew
Other Authors: Biomedical Engineering
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/42635
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05112011-192146/