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Blunt Force Trauma

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Blunt force trauma injuries occur during accidental and non-accidental events. The science of biomechanics explains the effect of forces, physiologic and nonphysiologic on living tissue. Even without using the calculations performed by biomechanical engineers in human blunt force trauma injury cases, veterinarians can apply the basic concepts of biomechanics to help understand and explain animal injury. Concepts such as severity of injury; pattern and type of injury; low-energy, high-energy, and very high-energy impacts; age of injury; minimum number of impacts; and repetitive injuries can be addressed by veterinarians evaluating an animal with blunt force trauma injuries.

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    Robert Reisman D.V.M.

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    Jason W. Brooks

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Reisman, R. (2018). Blunt Force Trauma. In: Brooks, J. (eds) Veterinary Forensic Pathology, Volume 1. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67172-7_5

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