New Universal Theory of Injury Prediction and Prevention

The prediction and prevention of traumatic brain injury, spinal injury and musculo-skeletal injury is a very important aspect of preventive medical science. Recently, in a series of papers [1, 2, 3], I have proposed a new coupled loading-rate hypothesis as a unique cause of all above injuries. This new hypothesis states that the main cause of all mechanical injuries is a Euclidean Jolt, which is an impulsive loading that strikes any part of the human body (head, spine or any bone/joint) – in several coupled degrees-of-freedom simultaneously. It never goes in a single direction only. Also, it is never a static force. It is always an impulsive translational and/or rotational force coupled to some mass eccentricity. This is, in a nutshell, my universal Jolt theory of all mechanical injuries.