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Methods in Trauma Biomechanics

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Work in trauma biomechanics is subject to a number of limitations that are less stringent, or even totally absent, in other fields of the technical and life sciences. First, experiments involving loading situations with humans that could cause injury are excluded. Secondly, animal models are of limited use because of the difficulty of scaling trauma events reliably from animals up or down to humans. Questionable representativeness of animal models with respect to human biomechanics, in spite of some similarities, poses another problem. And finally, cost, public awareness and, above all, ethical considerations further limit how and what type of experiments can be conducted.

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  1. AGU Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

    Kai-Uwe Schmitt

  2. Zürich, Switzerland

    Peter F. Niederer

  3. University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    Duane S. Cronin

  4. Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

    Barclay Morrison III

  5. AGU Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

    Markus H. Muser

  6. Uitikon Waldegg, Switzerland

    Felix Walz

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Schmitt, KU., Niederer, P.F., Cronin, D.S., Morrison III, B., Muser, M.H., Walz, F. (2019). Methods in Trauma Biomechanics. In: Trauma Biomechanics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11659-0_2

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