Critical reviews in biomedical engineering
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Crit Rev Biomed Eng · Jan 2001
ReviewThe state of head injury biomechanics: past, present, and future: part 1.
This article is the first of two parts of a comprehensive survey of the biomechanics of head injury since its inception in 1939 in the United States, the separation being made for temporal and spatial reasons. The second portion of this material will be published at a later time in this journal. The discussion will be almost exclusively limited to nonpenetrating events. ⋯ It is hoped that this survey will serve as a resource for researchers and practitioners in the area of traumatic head injury and provide a roadmap for further investigations that are urgently needed. For example, this could include a determination of the rate of absorption of blood emitted from broken vessels, and, hopefully, some correlation between mechanical failure and physiological dysfunction of the various relevant tissues of the head. Although a good beginning has been initiated, additional information at the neuronal and axonal level concerning the effect of loading on function as well as age-related changes in geometry and tissue properties is also needed.