The tolerance of the XXXX body to automobile collision impact - a systematic review of injury biomechanics research, 1990-2009.

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UNASSIGNED: Road traffic @entity130 account for 1.3 million deaths per year world-wide. Mitigating both fatalities and @entity130 requires a detailed understanding of the tolerance of the @entity1 body to external load. To identify research priorities, it is necessary to periodically compare trends in injury tolerance research to the characteristics of @entity130 occurring in the field. This study sought to perform a systematic review on the last twenty years of experimental injury tolerance research, and to evaluate those results relative to available epidemiologic data. Four hundred and eight experimental injury tolerance studies from 1990-2009 were identified from a reference index of over 68,000 papers. Examined variables included the body regions, ages, and genders studied; and the experimental models used. Most (20%) of the publications studied injury to the spine. There has also been a substantial volume of biomechanical research focused on upper and lower @entity130 , @entity764 , and injury to the elderly - although these @entity130 occur with regularity in the field. In contrast, information on pediatric @entity130 (especially in the central nervous system) remains lacking. Given their frequency of injury in the field, future efforts should also include improving our understanding of tolerances and protection of vulnerable road users (e.g., motorcyclists, pedestrians).
