Trauma Biomechanics

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-IX

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2. Introduction

   Pages 1-14

3. Methods in Trauma-Biomechanics

   Pages 15-53

4. Head Injuries

   Pages 55-81

5. Spinal Injuries

   Pages 83-125

6. Thoracic Injuries

   Pages 127-148

7. Abdominal Injuries

   Pages 149-159

8. Injuries of the Pelvis and the Lower Extremities

   Pages 161-186

9. Injuries of the Upper Extremities

   Pages 187-200

10. Impairment and injuries resulting from chronic mechanical exposure

    Pages 201-210

Everyday, more than 140’000 people are injured, 3000 killed, and 15’000 disabled for life everyday on the world's roads. Likewise, sports related injuries are numerous and have a significant socio economic impact. The field of trauma biomechanics, or injury biomechanics, uses the principles of mechanics to study the response and tolerance level of biological tissues under extreme loading conditions. Through an understanding of mechanical factors that influence the function and structure of human tissues, countermeasures can be developed to alleviate or even eliminate such injuries. This book, Trauma Biomechanics, surveys a wide variety of topics in injury biomechanics including anatomy, injury classification, injury mechanism, and injury criteria. It is the first collection I am aware of that lists regional injury reference values, or injury criterion, either currently in use or proposed by both U. S. and European communities. Although the book is meant to be an introduction for medical doctors and engineers who are beginners in the field of injury biomechanics, sufficient references are provided for those who wish to conduct further research, and even established researchers will find it useful as a reference for finding the biomechanical background of each proposed injury mechanismand i njury criterion. As more people become aware of and understand this subject, it will someday lead to better mitigation and prevention of automotive adn sports related injuries. I like this book very much and believe that you will find the same. King H.

• Crash Testing
• Optische Kohärenztomografie
• Spinal Injuries
• Trauma-Biomechanics
• accident
• biomechanics
• classification
• mechanics
• stress
• tissue
• traffic
• trauma

From the reviews:

"The authors of Trauma Biomechanics describe their work as an ‘introduction to accidental injury,’ and it is intended to be an introduction for engineers and doctors approaching the subject as beginners. The book will certainly serve this purpose. For the established researcher, extensive references are assigned … . The work can be warmly recommended for doctors in legal medicine, traumatology, and orthopedics and for engineers dealing with accident analysis." (A. Du Chesne, International Journal of Legal Medicine, Vol. 119 (4), 2005)

• Institute for Biomedical Engineering, University and ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

  Kai-Uwe Schmitt, Peter F. Niederer, Markus H. Muser, Felix Walz

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