Long term Cervical Spine Distortion (CSD) injuries after rear end car to car collisions.

Author(s)
Schick, S. & Hell, W.
Year
Abstract

In this case-control study technical and medical circumstances of CSD injury after rear-end car crashes are compared between patients showing different time spans to recover. Drivers with CSD injuries are divided into patients showing symptoms for more than 6 weeks and up to 6 months (80 controls) and chronic patients suffering for more than 6 months (22 cases). Statistical analysis is performed by applying Chi-Square and Mann-Whitney U-Test, documented are Odds Ratios with 95% confidence intervals and p-values. In general chronic CSD patients had been involved in biomechanically more complex rear end accident situations, but significantly higher frequencies are found for the factors low head-restraint positioning and psychological factors associated with time to recover. For the covering abstract see ITRD E134311.

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Library number
C 43359 (In: C 43328 CD-ROM) /80 /84 / ITRD E134342
Source

In: Proceedings of the 2005 International IRCOBI Conference on the biomechanics of impact, Prague (Czech Republic), September 21-23, 2005, 4 p.

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