Biomechanical responses of head/neck/torso to lateral impact loading on shoulders of male and female volunteers

Ono, Koshiro; Ejima, Susumu; Kaneoka, Koji; Fukushima, Makoto; Yamada, Shintaro; Ujihashi, Sadayuki; Compigne, Sabine

Affiliations

¹Japan Automobile Research Institute

²Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Tsukuba

³Tokyo Institute of Technology

⁴Institute National de Recherche sur les Transports et leur Securite

Abstract and keywords

For a better understanding of neck injury mechanism in lateral-collisions, experiments and analyses have been conducted on human head/neck/torso impact responses and cervical vertebral motions upon loading of lateral impacts from the shoulders of human volunteers. At the same time, differences in neck muscle responses between the male and female volunteers have been also analyzed by means of experiments. Likewise, the differences between human volunteers and cadavers have been also studied and discussed.

Keywords: Injury Criteria; Muscle; Neck; Volunteers; Lateral Impact

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