Occupant injuries in light passenger vehicles-A NASS study to enable priorities for development of injury prediction capabilities of human body models.

To prioritize how the development of mathematical human body models for injury prediction in crash safety analysis should be made, the most frequent injuries in the NASS CDS data from 2000 to 2015 were analyzed. The crashes were divided into seven types, from front to side. Non-minor injuries (AIS2+) were analyzed in two steps.

Reliability of measuring the cervical sagittal translation mobility with a simple method in a clinical setting.

Introduction. The cervical sagittal translation mobility is related to neck pain. A practical method for measuring the specific cervical mobility is needed.

Cervical status after neck sprains in frontal and rear-end car impacts.

Objective: To compare the cervical status after neck sprains in frontal and rear-end car impacts with respect to earlier proposed neck-sprain injury mechanisms, rotated head at impact, and the seat-belt geometry.

Methods: A prospective, multidisciplinary, in-depth study was made based on 23 car occupants injured in frontal impacts and 108 injured in rear-end impacts. The active neck mobility was measured in protraction-retraction, flexion-extension, side bending right-left, and rotation right-left.

Children at risk of residual physical problems after public road traffic injuries--a 1-year follow-up study.

Objectives: To describe the residual physical problems 1 year after traffic injuries in children with respect to age, gender, extraction (Swedish or foreign), type of care, type of accident and use of protective equipment, type of injury, and the impact on daily living activities.

Methods: Hospital data were analysed for children, aged 15 or under, after road traffic accidents in the Gothenburg region in 2000. Age, gender, type of road user, counterpart, use of protective equipment, type and severity of each injury, and type of care were related to follow-up data obtained by a self-completed questionnaire answered 1 year after the accident.

Jaw symptoms and signs and the connection to cranial cervical symptoms and post-traumatic stress during the first year after a whiplash trauma.

Purpose: To estimate the prevalence of jaw symptoms and signs during the first year after a neck sprain in a car collision. Further, to determine their relationships to the localisation and grade of the initial neck symptoms and signs, headache, post-traumatic stress and crash characteristics.

Methods: One hundred and forty-six adult subjects and crash characteristics were prospectively investigated in an in-depth study during 1997-2001.

Children and adolescents injured in traffic--associated psychological consequences: a literature review.

Aim: To identify the prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and PTSD symptoms (PTSS) among children and adolescents injured in traffic, and to assess predictors of such post-traumatic stress.

Methods: Studies identified from electronic databases were reviewed.

Results: Based on a review of 12 studies, fulfilling specified criteria, the prevalence of PTSS was estimated at 30% within 1 month and 13% at 3-6 months.

Whiplash-associated disorders in frontal impacts: influencing factors and consequences.

This multidisciplinary in-depth investigation of accidents using 24 occupants with neck symptoms shows the complexity of whiplash-associated disorders (WAD) in frontal impacts with respect to factors that influence occurrence as well as duration of symptoms. Several different occupant kinematics have been identified, all resulting in symptoms classified as WAD. Compared to occupants restrained only by a seat belt, occupants with arm resistance influence showed a greater representation of symmetrical neck symptoms.

Psychosocial aspects of road traffic trauma--benefits of an early intervention?

Purpose: To assess the psychosocial consequences of traffic accidents, and to evaluate the effect of an intervention programme to reduce the occurrence and extent of psychosocial residual states.

Material And Methods: A telephone interview was conducted with 314 individuals, 1(1/2)-2 years after the accident in 1994-1995. The effect of the intervention programme was studied for inpatients, 68 in the study group, and 89 in the control group.

Prediction of outcome in whiplash-associated disorders using West Haven-Yale Multidimensional Pain Inventory.

Objective: To investigate the predictive capacity of the West Haven-Yale Multidimensional Pain Inventory (MPI) with regard to prolonged pain, using car occupants who had sustained a neck sprain in a traffic accident.

Design: A prospective cohort study including a one-year follow-up.

Patients: One hundred thirty adults were examined by a specialized neck-injury team after a first visit to an accident and emergency department.

Cycling and alcohol.

Purpose: To compare the accident and the psychosocial circumstances and the consequences of the injuries sustained by intoxicated (alcohol) and sober cyclists in road traffic accidents.

Material And Methods: A telephone interview was conducted with 207 adults injured 3 years earlier. The group was selected from the list of 1278 cyclists registered at the hospitals in Göteborg in 1995 and 1996.