Soft Tissue Injury Threshold during Simulated Whiplash: A Biomechanical Investigation

Spine

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 979-987

  Ito, Shigeki ^a,b   Ivancic, Paul C ^a   Panjabi, Manohar M ^a   Cunningham, Bryan W ^c  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ST MARIANNA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c UNION MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomechanics; Cervical spine; Injury threshold; Spinal instability; Whiplash

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CERVICAL SPINE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOFT TISSUE INJURY; SPINE INSTABILITY; WHIPLASH INJURY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOMECHANICS; CADAVER; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLIABILITY; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOFT TISSUE INJURIES; STRESS, MECHANICAL; WHIPLASH INJURIES;

EID: 2342578771     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007632-200405010-00006     Document Type: Article

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