Can Injuries to Volunteers Result?
By Arthur Croft, DC, MS, MPH, FACO At the Spine Research Institute of San Diego’s proving grounds (CRASH 2004), we conducted an experimental study subjecting passengers to frontal collisions with speed changes of under 4 mph, and utilizing posttest structured interviews immediately after and four weeks after impact to quantify subjects’ clinical responses. GA_googleFillSlot(“dynamicchiropractic_com_Articles_Pages_Rectangle”); Our goal was to determine whether healthy adult volunteers report symptoms following exposure to low-speed frontal crashes at speeds below those hypothesized to represent a threshold for injury risk; and whether experimental frontal crashes can be conducted safely at the levels studied. Recent studies of frontal crashes, in which the authors had access to on-board crash pulse recorders and in which formal engineering examinations of the vehicles were conducted, have shown that neither speed change (delta V) nor structural damage are strong correlates of injury ris
