Thoracic and lumbar spinal impact tolerance

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 487-495

  'Dale' Bass, Cameron R ^a   Rafaels, Karin A ^a   Salzar, Robert S ^a   Carboni, Marina ^b   Kent, Richard W ^a   Lloyd, Michael D ^a   Lucas, Scott ^a   Meyerhoff, Kevin ^a   Planchak, Chris ^a   Damon, Andrew ^a   Bass, Gregory T ^a  

^a University of Virginia   (United States)

^b DEVELOPMENT AND ENGINEERING CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Back; Impact; Injury risk; Spine

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; RISK MANAGEMENT; SAFETY FACTOR; STANDARDS;

HUMAN CADAVERIC DATASET; INJURY RISK; LUMBAR SPINAL IMPACT TOLERANCE;

HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; CADAVER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; INJURY; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; PATHOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPINE FRACTURE; SWINE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; VERTEBRA;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ANIMALS; ANTHROPOMETRY; BACK INJURIES; CADAVER; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MODELS, ANIMAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPINAL FRACTURES; SWINE; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

EID: 40149095250     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2007.08.006     Document Type: Article

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