...T. Whyte; J. B. Barker; D. S. Cronin; G. A. Dumas; L.-P. Nolte; P. A. Cripton The cervical spine experiences shear forces during everyday activities and injurious events yet there is a paucity of biomechanical data characterizing the cervical spine under shear loading. This study aimed to (1...

...Jobin D. John; Gurunathan Saravana Kumar; Narayan Yoganandan Whiplash injuries continue to be a concern in low-speed rear impact. This study was designed to investigate the role of variations in spine morphology and head inertia properties on cervical spine segmental rotation in rear-impact...

...Ana Trajkovski; Senad Omerović; Marija Hribernik; Ivan Prebil In the presented study, samples of the three main cervical ligaments (ALL, PLL, and LF) obtained from the human cadaveric cervical spines were tested on a custom designed test rig in physiological conditions. The elastic...

... received September 4, 2012; final manuscript received May 27, 2013; accepted manuscript posted June 17, 2013; published online September 24, 2013. Assoc. Editor: Brian D. Stemper. 04 09 2012 27 05 2013 17 06 2013 Current understanding of the biomechanics of cervical spine injuries...

...Kathleen D. Klinich; Sheila M. Ebert; Matthew P. Reed Knowledge of the distributions of cervical-spine curvature is needed for computational studies of cervical-spine injury in motor-vehicle crashes. Many methods of specifying spinal curvature have been proposed, but they often involve qualitative...

... the contact pressure response for this joint. Such information can provide a quantitative measure of the facet joint’s local environment. The objective of this study was to measure facet pressure during physiologic bending in the cervical spine, using a joint capsule-sparing technique. Flexion and extension...

...Alan T. Dibb; Roger W. Nightingale; Jason F. Luck; V. Carol Chancey; Lucy E. Fronheiser; Barry S. Myers Tensile loading of the human cervical spine results from noncontact inertial loading of the head as well as mandibular and craniofacial impacts. Current vehicle safety standards include a neck...

... in stress in adjacent levels. A detailed and validated 3D finite element model of the complete human cervical spine (C1-T1) was altered to simulate segmental full and partial discectomies. One full fusion (bone graft occupies about 90% of the vertebral body) and seven partial fusions (bone graft occupies...

... ejection phases (including windblast and parachute opening shock) has not been thoroughly investigated. Both windblast and parachute opening shock have been shown to induce dynamic tensile forces in the human cervical spine. However, the human tolerance to such loading is not well known. Therefore...

...Kevin J. Netto; Angus F. Burnett; Jonathon P. Green; Julian P. Rodrigues EMG-driven musculoskeletal modeling is a method in which loading on the active and passive structures of the cervical spine may be investigated. A model of the cervical spine exists; however, it has yet to be criterion...

... that the increased cervical spine injury incidence previously observed in cadaveric impacts to padded surfaces relative to lubricated rigid surfaces was due to increased surface friction rather than pocketing of the head in the pad. Monk, M. W., and Sullivan, L. K., 1986, “Energy Absorption Material Selection...