Background The research literature was systematically reviewed and results were summarized from studies assessing bicycle helmet effectiveness to mitigate head, serious head, face, neck and fatal head injury in a crash or fall. Methods Four electronic databases (MEDLINE, EMBASE, COMPENDEX and SCOPUS) were searched for relevant, peer-reviewed articles in English. Included studies reported medi...

A wide range of head and neck injury risks are present in sport, including catastrophic injury. The literature since 1980 on prevention of head and neck injury in sport was reviewed, focusing on catastrophic and brain injury and identifying the range of injury prevention methods in use. There have been few formal evaluations of injury prevention methods. Approaches that are considered, or have ...

Children with disabilities are transported on a daily basis to schools and developmental facilities. When they travel, they often remain seated in their wheelchairs in vehicles. To study injury risk of pediatric wheelchair users in motor vehicle crashes, three of the same pediatric manual wheelchairs were sled impact tested with a seated Hybrid III 6-year-old ATD using a 20 g/48 km/h frontal cr...

OBJECTIVE To prospectively evaluate the safety and accuracy of physical examination in determining the management of stable patients with gunshot wounds to the neck. DESIGN Prospective study of 59 patients with gunshot wounds to the neck. PATIENTS AND METHODS Fifty-nine stable patients with gunshot wounds to the neck managed between December 2001 and August 2003. All patients had a physical...

OBJECTIVE To examine whether adolescent flexibility, endurance strength, and physical activity can predict the later occurrence of recurrent low back pain, tension neck, or knee injury. METHODS In 1976, 520 men and 605 women participated in a sit and reach test (flexibility) and a 30 second sit up test (endurance strength). In 1976 and 2001 (aged 37 and 42 years) they completed a questionnair...

OBJECTIVES To determine the predictive value and sensitivity of demographic features and injuries (indicators) for maltreatment-related codes in hospital discharge records of children admitted with a head or neck injury or fracture. METHODS STUDY DESIGN Population-based, cross sectional study. SETTING NHS hospitals in England. SUBJECTS Children under five years old admitted acutely to ...

Reconstruction of the neck following a burn injury poses a significant challenge to reconstructive burn surgeons. Here, we report a case of successful application of pre-expanded occipito-dorsal flaps in the reconstruction of postburn scars and contractures in the neck. The patient was a 10-year-old boy who sustained scars and contractures secondary to a burn injury 4 years ago. "Super-thin" fl...

RISK OF INJURY AT THE CERVICAL LEVEL during automotive crashes is difficult to assess. Injury tolerance values were shown to be very dependent from intrinsic or extrinsic parameters and their relevance is still controversial. The curvature of the human neck presents a great variability (Matsumoto 1998) and may be influenced by a seated posture (Black 1996). The aim of this study is to assess th...