Spinal Injury Research

Spinal trauma research: experiments were performed using fresh cadaveric specimens to learn how neck and low back injuries occur.

Spinal injury experiments:

1st, non-injurious forces were applied to the human neck and low back and responses were measured to provide better data for mathematical models for automotive safety and crash dummy design.

2nd, injurious forces were applied to the human neck and low back, the forces that produced injury were measured, and then diagnostic studies (x-rays, MRI, dissection) were performed to relate the amount of force and type of force applied to the resulting spinal injury patterns.