When epidemiological databases inform injury mechanisms: biomechanical analysis of injury associations.

Background: Vehicle accidents are still a heavy social burden despite improvements due the latest technologies and policies. To pursue the trend of decrease, having a more detailed view and understanding of the injury patterns would contribute to inform both the rescue team to optimize victim's management and policymakers in order for them to tackle at best this issue.

Methods: Two complementary analyses of injury associations were performed, one using a biomechanical classification and the other an anatomic one, computed on data stratified by car accident type (lateral or frontal).

Finite Element Analysis of Sacroiliac Joint Fixation under Compression Loads.

Background: Sacroiliac joint (SIJ) is a known chronic pain-generator. The last resort of treatment is the arthrodesis. Different implants allow fixation of the joint, but to date there is no tool to analyze their influence on the SIJ biomechanics under physiological loads.