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What Is Pain?
One of many commonly accepted definitions of pain is ‘an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience that is resultant from many factors…
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The 3 Key Benefits of Personal Training
There are many reasons why people reach out to a personal trainer to help them achieve their health and exercise…
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Could Load Be A Factor Or More Specifically Load Management?
There were a number of research papers (Gabbett, 2016), (Drew & Finch, 2016), (Jones, Griffiths, & Mellalieu, 2017) that suggest…
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Does Strength Training Help Prevent Injury?
One of the reasons why somebody might do strength training is to help reduce their risk of injury. But does…
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How a Properly Worn Seatbelt Does its Job
Correctly worn seat belts help to contain occupants in their seats and allow most of the collision forces associated with…
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The Effect of Age on Slip, Trip, and Falls
Figure 1: As we age, our posture becomes increasingly more stooped (yellow arrows) leading to a reduction in hip angle…
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Protecting Our Children: The Biomechanics Behind Child Seat Safety
When it comes to collisions, children are a special group with different injury tolerances than adults, and as such, require…
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Measuring Slip Resistance
When investigating a slip and fall incident, our forensic experts are often asked to comment on how slippery a surface…
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“Bracing” for The Future of Injury Biomechanics
With the increasing autonomous capabilities of vehicles, and with fully driverless cars just on the horizon, many automotive manufacturers are…
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The Driver in Question: Who was really driving?
Sometimes after a collision has occurred, there is an uncertainty around who was actually driving at the time of the…
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To deploy or not to deploy? That is the question…
We are often asked to explain why the airbags did or didn’t deploy in a particular collision. Many people have…
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Investigations of Slip and Fall or Trip and Fall Incidents
According to the World Health Organisation, falls are the second leading cause of accidental or unintentional injury deaths worldwide, and…