Truma Biomechanics
كاتب: Andris Freivalds Category: Biomechanics Publisher: CRC Press منشور: 14 March، 2018 ISBN: 978-1138073234 صفحات: 528 اللغة: English File Size: 6.87MBTrauma Biomechanics: An Introduction to Injury Biomechanics.
Injury is arguably one of the most under-recognized health problems facing society
today. Potential injury hazards exist everywhere in our daily environments
including the workplace, home, transportation, and sports and recreational settings.
From traffific-related injuries alone, the World Health Organization estimates that
1.2 million people die each year worldwide and as many as 50 million are injured
or disabled. The associated expenditures, lost productivity, legal, and medical
costs resulting from these injuries and fatalities are staggering. More importantly,
the personal losses resulting from serious injury and death are incalculable.
While this trauma often results from catastrophic events that are deemed
accidents, the mechanisms of these injuries are both understandable and pre
ventable. Trauma biomechanics uses engineering principles to explore the physical
response of the human body to applied forces that produce failure of the tissues.
With a fifirm understanding of trauma biomechanics, researchers and designers are
able to apply existing knowledge and to generate new data for the development of
improved injury prevention strategies.
The book, Trauma Biomechanics, provides a comprehensive overview and
introduction to the subject for these researchers and designers. While countless
examples of protective equipment such as seat belts, air bags, and helmets have
been designed using the principles of trauma biomechanics, the prevalence and
severity of the injuries necessitate that we continue to educate and train the next
generation of engineers, scientists, and medical professionals.
I have taught injury biomechanics for more than two decades and this book on
trauma biomechanics has become a mainstay as a supplemental text in my
graduate engineering courses. The book deftly and succinctly covers the back
ground, tools, methods, and resources of trauma biomechanics before delving into
a systematic review of the anatomy, injury classifification, injury mechanisms, and
injury criteria of each body region. Each chapter includes summaries of the most
relevant scientifific literature and biomechanical research that provide background
and context for the interpretation of the graphical and tabular information.
vThe book concludes with a chapter on injury prevention that combines both
collision avoidance as well as passive injury countermeasures. While the intended
audience of the book is primarily scientists and clinicians working in the area of
trauma, the straightforward writing style and graphical depictions make even the
most technical engineering and medical concepts approachable for a broad array of
injury prevention professionals including epidemiologists, social scientists, and
policy makers.
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