Ankle Fracture Patterns in Drivers are Associated with Femoral Fracture, Higher BMI and Advanced Age.

CONCLUSIONS: Efforts to reduce the risk of driver ankle injury should focus on right foot and pedal interaction. The range of injury patterns identified here suggest that efforts to minimize driver ankle fracture risk will likely need to consider injury tolerances for flexion, pronation/supination, and axial loading in order to capture the full range of injury mechanisms. In the clinical environment, physicians examining drivers after a frontal crash should consider those who are older, obese or who have severe femoral injury without concurrent head injury, as highly suspicious for an ankle injury. PMID: 26760948 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Traffic Injury Prevention - Category: Accident Prevention Authors: Tags: Traffic Inj Prev Source Type: research