Abstract
Work in trauma-biomechanics is subjected to a number of limitations which are less stringent or even totally absent in other fields of the technical and life sciences. First of all, experiments involving loading situations with humans which are prone to cause injury are excluded. Second, animal models are of limited use because of the difficulty to scale trauma events reliably from animals up or down to humans. A number of experiments in connection with seat belts were nevertheless made in earlier years with pigs [Verriest et al. 1981] since their thorax resembles the human thorax mechanically to some extent; likewise, monkeys were subjected to impact in order to study head motion and neck dynamics [Ewing et al 1978]. Anaesthetised animals provide moreover a model to investigate physiological reactions at high mechanical exposure levels. Questionable representativeness with respect to human biomechanics in spite of some similarity, furthermore, cost and above all ethical considerations along with public awareness limit however such experiments to special circumstances today.
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(2007). Methods in Trauma-Biomechanics. In: Trauma Biomechanics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73873-2_2
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