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

Information

• NSF Award
• 1230312

Owner

• CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA, THE A PA NON PROFIT CORPORATION

• Award Id

  1230312

• Award Effective Date

  7/1/2012 - 12 years ago

• Award Expiration Date

  6/30/2014 - 10 years ago

• Award Amount

  $ 195,662.00

• Award Instrument

  Standard Grant

Center for Child Injury Prevention Studies (CChIPS) <br/>Proposal # 1230312 <br/>Flaura Winston <br/><br/>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. <br/><br/>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. <br/><br/>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.

• Program Officer

  Raffaella Montelli

• Min Amd Letter Date

  6/4/2012 - 12 years ago

• Max Amd Letter Date

  6/4/2012 - 12 years ago

• ARRA Amount

• Name

  The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

• City

  Philadelphia

• State

  PA

• Country

  United States

• Address

  Research Administration

• Postal Code

  191044318

• Phone Number

  2674260122

• First Name

  Flaura

• Last Name

  Winston

• Email Address

  flaura@mail.med.upenn.edu

• Start Date

  6/4/2012 12:00:00 AM

• First Name

  Kristy

• Last Name

  Arbogast

• Email Address

  arbogast@email.chop.edu

• Start Date

  6/4/2012 12:00:00 AM