Tooby, James http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5398-4416
Till, Kevin
Gardner, Andrew
Stokes, Keith
Tierney, Gregory
Weaving, Daniel
Rowson, Steve
Ghajari, Mazdak
Emery, Carolyn
Bussey, Melanie Dawn
Jones, Ben
Article History
Accepted: 24 February 2024
First Online: 9 March 2024
Declarations
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: No funding was received for the preparation of this article.
: James Tooby was a co-author on a validation study comparing the validity and feasibility of instrumented mouthguards and is a research team member on current research projects using Prevent Biometrics mouthguards. Kevin Till was a co-author on a validation study comparing the validity and feasibility of instrumented mouthguards. Melanie Dawn Bussey has received funding from World Rugby and Prevent Biometrics (instrumented mouthguard provider). Carolyn Emery is a member of the external advisory board for HitIQ (instrumented mouthguard provider). Andrew Gardner serves as a scientific advisor for HitIQ (an instrumented mouthguard provider). He has a clinical practice in neuropsychology involving individuals who have sustained sport-related concussion (including current and former athletes). He has been a contracted concussion consultant to Rugby Australia since July 2016. He is a member of the World Rugby Concussion Working Group and a member of the AFL’s Concussion Scientific Advisory group. He has received travel funding or been reimbursed by professional sporting bodies, and commercial organisations for discussing or presenting sport-related concussion research at meetings, scientific conferences, workshops and symposiums. He has received research support from the Nick Tooth Foundation. Previous grant funding includes the NSW Sporting Injuries Committee, the Brain Foundation (Australia), an Australian-American Fulbright Commission Postdoctoral Award, an NHMRC early research career fellowship, a Hunter New England Local Health District, Research, Innovation and Partnerships Health Research & Translation Centre and Clinical Research Fellowship Scheme and the Hunter Medical Research Institute (HMRI), supported by Jennie Thomas, and the HMRI, supported by Anne Greaves. Keith Stokes is employed by the Rugby Football Union, which is the governing body for rugby union in England. Gregory Tierney has received research funding from World Rugby and Prevent Biometrics (instrumented mouthguard provider). Daniel Weaving, Mazdak Ghajari and Steve Rowson have no conflicts of interest that are directly relevant to the content of this article. Ben Jones was the lead author on a validation study comparing the validity and feasibility of instrumented mouthguards.
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: Data sharing is not applicable to this article as no datasets were generated or analysed in its preparation.
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: JT, KT and BJ conceptualised and drafted the article. AG, KS, GT, DW, SR, MG, CE and MDB critically reviewed and edited the manuscript prior to submission. All authors read and approved the final version of the manuscript.