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Accidental Injury

Abstract

The literature is replete with studies dealing with the responses of the adult human load-bearing systems under physiologic and traumatic loading. These include prospective and retrospective clinical, epidemiologic, experimental (biologic and physical), and mathematical studies. Early work on the cranium and its contents has formed a basis for the widely used head injury criteria.45,46,131 Biomechanical investigations have been conducted to delineate facial tolerance secondary to impact.55,121,136,148,149,151,157 Similarly, human vertebral column studies including the spinal cord have focused on adult tolerances and injury mechanisms under various modes of to a ding.6, 106,108,109,140,143,146,150,155,156 Investigations describing the tolerance of the adult human thorax/chest under frontal and side-impact loading modalities also exist.7,20–22,36,37,91,93,138,139,141,145,153,154,158 Likewise, the tolerances of the upper and lower extremities have been explored for the adult structure.l0,11,64,92,105,144 The cited reference list is not inclusive. Despite these efforts, biomechanical data remain sparse for the growing pediatric group.

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Yoganandan, N., Kumaresan, S., Pintar, F.A., Gennarelli, T.A. (2002). Pediatric Biomechanics. In: Nahum, A.M., Melvin, J.W. (eds) Accidental Injury. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-21787-1_21

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