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Development and Utilization of a Semi-Automated Finite Element Approach to Real World Motor Vehicle Crash Reconstruction to Investigate Lumbar Spine Injury
… to MVCs every year. To study real world injury incidence and causation, multiple databases are continually updated by trained crash investigators. Recent analyses have shown that despite increasing crashworthiness of vehicles, the rate of lumbar spine injuries has increased over the …
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CSPINE (Correlating Soft tissue Projections in Injured NEcks) A descriptive study on measuring prevertebral soft tissue thickness as a ratio of vertebral body width in paediatric cervical spine trauma
… soft tissue thickness on a lateral cervical spine (C-spine) X-ray is interpreted as swelling, raising suspicion of C-spine injury1,2 . Defining swelling in absolute measurements is cumbersome – children’s sizes vary. Evidence for potentially more consistent tools measuring soft tissue …
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Carrying and Loading of the Spine
The risk that carrying poses for the spine has not yet been fully explored. Previous studies have either examined carrying’s effect on physiologic measures or have examined vary narrow sections of the spine using biomechanical models. Additionally, most studies have tested a limited selection of …