Chapter 8 – Injury Biomechanics

This chapter provides an overview of injury biomechanics suitable for application in a forensic epidemiologic investigation of risk or causality. The chapter presents basic background information and principles regarding the biomechanics of injury as such principles are typically applied in a forensic setting, along with various examples of applied biomechanics.

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