Minor injuries of the cervical spine are essentially defined as injuries that do not involve a
fracture. Archetypical of minor cervical injury is the whiplash injury. Among other reasons …

The validity of whiplash syndrome has been a source of debate in the medical literature for
many years. Some authors have published articles suggesting that whiplash injuries are …

Study Design. The motion of each cervical vertebra during simulated rear-end car collisions
was analyzed. Objectives. To clarify the mechanism of zygapophysial joint injury during …

Twelve volunteers participated in the experiment under the supervision of Tsukuba
University Ethics Committee. The subjects sat on a seat mounted on a newly developed sled …

Study Design. Cervical facet capsular strains were determined during bending and at failure
in the human cadaver. Objective. To determine the effect of an axial pretorque on facet …

A study was conducted to find out whether in a rear-impact motor vehicle accident, velocity
changes in the impact vehicle of between 10 and 15 km/h can cause so-called “whiplash …

Research into the biomechanics of low speed rear impacts has focused primarily on the
kinematic responses of anthropometrie dummies and human subjects. Occupant muscular …

The purposes of this study are to measure the relative linear and angular displacements of
each pair of adjacent cervical vertebrae and to compute the deformation of the facet joint …

To examine whether habituation confounds the study of whiplash injury using human
subjects, we quantified changes in the magnitude and temporal development of the neck …

A second series of low speed rear end crash tests with seven volunteer test subjects have
delineated human head/neck dynamics for velocity changes up to 10.9 kph (6.8 mph) …