'Falling heads': investigating reflexive responses to head-neck perturbations.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Reflexive responses to head-neck perturbations affect the injury risk in many different situations ranging from sports-related impact to car accident scenarios. Although several experiments have been conducted to investigate these head-neck responses to various perturbations, it is still unclear why and how individuals react differently and what the implications of these different responses across subjects on the potential injuries might be. Therefore, we see a need for both experimental data and biophysically valid computational Human Body Models with bio-inspired muscle control strategies to understand individual reflex responses better.

Methods

To address this issue, we conducted perturbation experiments of the head-neck complex and used this data to examine co

SUBMITTER: Wochner I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9013062 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature