Role of age and injury mechanism in cervical spine injury tolerance under head contact loading.

CONCLUSIONS: For compression-related injuries, specimen age should be used as a covariate or, individual specimen data may be prescaled to derive risk curves. For distraction- or extension-related injuries however, specimen age need not be used as a covariate in the statistical analysis. The findings from these tests and survival analysis indicate that the age factor modulates human cervical spine tolerance to impact injury. PMID: 28738168 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Traffic Injury Prevention - Category: Accident Prevention Authors: Tags: Traffic Inj Prev Source Type: research