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Trauma Biomechanics

Accidental injury in traffic and sports

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  • © 2010

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Authors:
  1. Kai-Uwe Schmitt

    1. Inst. Biomedizinische Technik, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

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  2. Peter F. Niederer

    1. Inst. Biomedizinische Technik, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

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  3. Markus H. Muser

    1. Inst. Biomedizinische Technik, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

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  4. Felix Walz

    1. Inst. Biomedizinische Technik, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

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  • Essential text, providing both an introduction and overview of injury biomechanics including sport injuries
  • Tried and tested material arises from a course that is held similarly at several European and American Universities
  • No previous knowledge in biomechanics required
  • Third revised edition gives many worked examples and problems for home work exercises
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • Kai-Uwe Schmitt, Peter F. Niederer, Markus H. Muser, Felix Walz
    Pages 1-16

  3. Methods in Trauma Biomechanics

    • Kai-Uwe Schmitt, Peter F. Niederer, Markus H. Muser, Felix Walz
    Pages 17-62

  4. Head Injuries

    • Kai-Uwe Schmitt, Peter F. Niederer, Markus H. Muser, Felix Walz
    Pages 63-93

  5. Spinal Injuries

    • Kai-Uwe Schmitt, Peter F. Niederer, Markus H. Muser, Felix Walz
    Pages 95-142

  6. Thoracic Injuries

    • Kai-Uwe Schmitt, Peter F. Niederer, Markus H. Muser, Felix Walz
    Pages 143-167

  7. Abdominal Injuries

    • Kai-Uwe Schmitt, Peter F. Niederer, Markus H. Muser, Felix Walz
    Pages 169-181

  8. Injuries of the Pelvis and the Lower Extremities

    • Kai-Uwe Schmitt, Peter F. Niederer, Markus H. Muser, Felix Walz
    Pages 183-212

  9. Injuries of the Upper Extremities

    • Kai-Uwe Schmitt, Peter F. Niederer, Markus H. Muser, Felix Walz
    Pages 213-230

  10. Impairment and injuries resulting from chronic mechanical exposure

    • Kai-Uwe Schmitt, Peter F. Niederer, Markus H. Muser, Felix Walz
    Pages 231-241

  11. Solutions to exercises

    • Kai-Uwe Schmitt, Peter F. Niederer, Markus H. Muser, Felix Walz
    Pages 243-246

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 1-3
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Injury is a leading cause of death, hospitalisation and disability world-wide. The World Health Organization predicts that unintentional injuries arising from road traffic incidents will rise to take third place in the rank order of international disease burden by the year 2030. Although these statistics and the associated economic costs are staggering, the effect of unintentional injury and death from trauma is more apparent, and more disturbing, when seen personally. By a young age, nearly everyone in the world, regardless of region, wealth or education, has had a relative or someone that they know killed or disabled in an "accident". The quality of life and financial effects on the injured person and their families and friends are plainly evident and clearly devastating. Many unintentional injuries are in reality not accidents; they could be prevented with changes in policy, education, or through improved safety devices. Arrayed against these preventable injuries, a diverse group of injury prevention researchers and practitioners work to decrease the incidence of unintentional injury. In trauma biomechanics, the principles of mechanics are used to understand how injuries happen at the level of the bones, joints, organs and tissues of the body. This knowledge is central in the development, characterization and improvement of safety devices such as helmets and seat belts and in the safe design of vehicles and equipment used for transportation, occupation and recreation.

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"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)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Inst. Biomedizinische Technik, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

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

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