Abstract
Purpose: Epidemiological studies point to the occurrence of more than 1.25 million youth sport concussion and musculoskeletal injuries due to player-to-player collisions annually, with approximately 60% of these identified as unanticipated (i.e., preventable) events. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the association between prospective oculomotor (i.e., visual tracking) performance and unanticipated collision incidence and impact force exposure during high school girls soccer competition. Methods: Forty-four healthy high school female soccer athletes performed two 30 s blocks of prosaccade and self-paced saccade tasks prior to the season. During task …
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