The Prevention of Head Injuries
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Prevention of Head Injuries Focusing Specifically on Oblique Impacts
The massive number of injuries sustained in traffic accidents is a growing problem worldwide, especially in developing countries. In 1998, more than one million people were killed in traffic accidents worldwide, while about ten times as many people were injured. Injuries to the central nervous system and in particular to the head are especially critical to human life. This thesis contains five ...
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Serious injury to the head is a national health problem with enormous emotional, fiscal, and physical consequences. For this special issue of PHYSICAL THERAPY, serious head injury is defined as trauma to the head with presumed brain involvement. Complete statistical data about head injury in the United States are not available. In the last decade, two national surveys have been done to determin...
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عنوان ژورنال: Postgraduate Medical Journal
سال: 1963
ISSN: 0032-5473
DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.39.458.705