Among the problems of protecting the human body from trauma, those concerning the reduction of brain injuries are both the most important due to the frequency and severity of this kind of injury and the most difficult because of the anatomical and functional complexity of the central nervous system. For many years, various theories have been proposed to explain the mechanism producing brain injuries. None of them is fully satisfactory to account for all different kinds of injury. Therefore, with the practical aim of ensuring protection, it is necessary to determine the prevailing injury mechanism in order to develop a protection criterion to be opposed to its action. This study deals with collection and analysis of clinical data of brain injuries with a view to establishing a classification of these cases and a hierarchy of injuries. With the help of the literature data, the study results can be used to determine the likely prevailing injury mechanism.
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