ArticleAnnals of biomedical engineering2025
Disc Injury and Spine Loads in Low-to-Moderate-Severity Frontal Impacts.
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Abstract
purposeDetermine the cervical and lumbar spine forces and moments generated in belted occupants in frontal impacts up to 40-km/h change in velocity (
methodsLoads experienced by anthropomorphic test devices, human volunteers, and human cadavers were measured in 282 impact tests. Functions were developed to describe the expected loads as functions of
resultsThe functions confirm that the spinal loads are well below any established injury assessment reference value. Compressive loads are within the range of loads voluntarily tolerated during daily activities and well below the loads that have caused disc injuries in biomechanical studies.
conclusionThis study confirms the lack of a biomechanical foundation to assert specific causation when a belted occupant presents with isolated disc herniations, bulges, or extrusions through the annulus following a frontal impact under 40-km/h
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