EPIDEMIOLOGICAL AND CLINICAL FEATURES OF SPINAL-CORD LESIONS FROM MOTORCYCLE CRASHES

Injuries to the spinal cord can be devastating, often with tragic consequences to the survivor. Since present treatment offers little hope of restoring neurologic function, prevention of such injuries and limitations of sequelae is presently the best approach to combating this injury. A significant proportion of spinal-cord injuries related to motor vehicles involve motorcycles. Epidemiologic features of motorcycle crashes that produce spinal-cord injury, and the severity, types, and pattern of spinal-cord and other injuries sustained, are described. /TRRL/

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Proceedings of the Meeting on Biomechanics of Injury.
• Corporate Authors:

  IRCOBI (International Research Council on the Biokinetics of Impacts)

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• Authors:
  • Kraus, J F
  • Franti, C E
  • Riggins, R S
  • Borhani, N O
• Publication Date: 1976-9

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 92
• Serial:
  • Publication of: IRCOBI SECRETARIAT
  • Publisher: IRCOBI (International Research Council on the Biokinetics of Impacts)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Blood alcohol levels; Conferences; Crash injury research; Crash severity; Epidemiology; Fatalities; Injuries; Injury severity; Medical examinations and tests; Motorcycles; Motorcyclists; Prevention; Spinal column; Vertebrae
• Old TRIS Terms: Clinical tests
• ITRD Terms: 1553: Blood alcohol content; 2040: Cervical vertebrae; 8525: Conference; 1602: Fatality; 2163: Injury; 1752: Motorcyclist; 9149: Prevention; 1623: Severity (accid, injury); 2041: Spinal column
• Subject Areas: Highways; Research; Safety and Human Factors; Security and Emergencies; I84: Personal Injuries;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00148055
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Institute for Road Safety Research, SWOV
• Report/Paper Numbers: Proceeding
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 2 1977 12:00AM