Severe Calcaneus Injury Probability Curves Due to Under-Body Blast.

Annals of Biomedical Engineering
Liming VooDavid Drewry

Abstract

The lower extremity is the most frequently injured body region to mounted soldiers during underbody blast (UBB) events. UBB events often produce large deformations of the floor and subsequent acceleration of the lower limb that are not sufficiently mitigated by the combat boot, leaving the calcaneus bone vulnerable to injury. Biomechanical experiments simulating UBB loading scenarios were conducted in a laboratory environment using isolated postmortem human subject (PMHS) leg components. Each leg component was tested twice: one sub-injurious test followed by a injury-targeted test. This enabled the use of interval censoring for each specimen in the survival statistical analysis to generate the human injury probability curves (HIPCs). Foot contact forces were measured in both the hindfoot and forefoot. Strains and acoustic emission signals at the calcaneus and distal tibia were utilized to determine injury timing. The footplate velocities of the injury tests ranged 8-13 m/s with time-to-peak velocity of 1.8-2.5 ms while the velocities of non-injury tests ranged from 4 to 6 m/s with the same time-to-peak. The majority of the injuries were severe calcaneus fractures (Sanders III-IV). Secondary injuries included fractures to the di...Continue Reading

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