Citation

Viano DC, Lövsund P. Crash Prev. Injury Control 1999; 1(1): 35-43.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1999, Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine, Publisher Overseas Publishers Association - Gordon and Breach)

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Abstract

The determination of brain and spinal cord injury mechanisms has perplexed medical and biomechanical scientists for a very long time.  This paper analyzes some neural impact tests on brain and spinal cord, by using 46 brain and 48 spinal cord impact experiments.  These tests provide a database on brain and spinal cord injury, and the results indicate that strain is not a sufficient parameter of neural injury risk, and that the product of strain rate and strain provides a key biomechanical parameter for brain and spinal cord injury.