Publications by authors named "M Ghajari"
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- Concussions in contact sports pose significant challenges in prevention, detection, and management for athletes, medical professionals, and sporting organizations.
- Recent technological advancements have led to the creation of a comprehensive database by researchers and clinicians from the Australasian National Rugby League to analyze head impacts and track clinical outcomes.
- This protocol aims to enhance understanding of concussions in rugby through detailed data collection, informing injury prevention strategies and improving overall player safety.
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- Bicycle helmets primarily protect against skull fractures but their effectiveness against diffuse brain injuries is less understood.
- The study tested 30 popular helmets under various impact conditions to evaluate protection against linear and rotational forces, revealing significant variations in performance.
- Helmets with MIPS technology generally performed better in reducing rotational forces, but price did not correlate with injury risk, indicating that not all expensive helmets offer better protection.
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- Real-world collision data reconstruction helps to understand injury biomechanics and identify injury thresholds, but it often suffers from uncertainty in parameters like impact speed and pedestrian characteristics.
- A study was conducted using six pedestrian-car collision cases from the GB Road Accident In-Depth Studies (RAIDS) database, considering variations in input parameters to analyze the effects on head kinematic metrics related to injury risk.
- The analysis revealed that input uncertainty differently affected the initial head-vehicle impact and the subsequent head-ground impact, and real-world evidence helped constrain the most realistic scenarios for injury prediction.
In pediatric dentistry, complications arising from extended soft tissue anesthesia can negatively impact patient comfort and trust in dental care. This study evaluates the clinical efficacy of diode laser-based photobiomodulation therapy (PBMT) in expediting the resolution of anesthesia in children aged 6-9 receiving inferior alveolar nerve block (IANB) injections. In this split-mouth double-blind randomized clinical trial, 36 pediatric subjects aged 6-9, requiring pulpotomy procedures on both sides of the mandible, received IANBs (single cartridge of 2% lidocaine/1:100,000 epinephrine).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHead acceleration events (HAEs) are acceleration responses of the head following external short-duration collisions. The potential risk of brain injury from a single high-magnitude HAE or repeated occurrences makes them a significant concern in sport. Instrumented mouthguards (iMGs) can approximate HAEs.
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