Spinal cord injuries (SCIs) can arise from compression loading when a vertebra fractures
and bone fragments are pushed into the spinal canal. Experimental studies have …

The human head is a highly complex structure, with a combination of hard and soft tissues
and a variety of materials and interactions. Many researchers have used computational …

Brain and spinal cord injuries have devastating consequences on quality of life but are
challenging to assess experimentally due to the traumatic nature of such injuries. Finite …

Background Tension in the spinal cord is a trademark of tethered cord syndrome.
Unfortunately, existing tests cannot quantify tension across the bulk of the cord, making the …

Autologous pericranium is a promising dural graft material. An optimal graft should exhibit
similar mechanical properties to the native dura, but the mechanical properties of human …

Finite element head models offer great potential to study brain-related injuries; however, at
present may be limited by geometric and material property simplifications required for …

Acute spinal cord injuries (SCI) have a global annual occurrence rate of 14 to 40 per million
population with considerable societal cost. The primary mechanism of injury involves …

Traumatic spinal cord lesions studies are often carried out with animal models or numerical
simulations. Unfortunately, animal models usually present a high variability in severity and …

This thesis explores the correlation between mechanical impact and neurological damage in
spinal cord injury (SCI) through computational modeling and machine learning (ML). It …

Headforms as a type of physical human head models are widely used in head injury
research and for the design and assessment of safety gear. The mechanisms of head injury …