Improved measures of foot and ankle injury risk from the Hybrid III tibia

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Welbourne, Eric R.¹; Shewchenko, Nicholas²

Improved measures of foot and ankle injury risk from the Hybrid III tibia

Proceedings of the 16th International Technical Conference on the Enhanced Safety of Vehicles (ESV)

Affiliations

¹Transport Canada

²Biokinetics and Associates, Canada
Abstract

From a regulatory viewpoint, the design, construction and instrumentation of the Hybrid III tibia, and the related measures of injury risk, specified in Directive 96/79/EC, present some difficulties. The paper briefly describes limitations associated with the design of the tibia, the standard instrumentation, and the currently regulated measures of injury risk. Given the anticipated delay before more advanced legs become available, interim means of increasing the utility of current data are suggested. Improvements to the instrumentation and further modification of the ankle characteristics are briefly discussed.
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