New Universal Theory of Injury Prediction and Prevention

TL;DR

This paper introduces a universal injury prediction theory based on the Euclidean Jolt, an impulsive coupled loading that causes various injuries, offering a new framework for understanding and preventing traumatic injuries.

Contribution

It proposes the coupled loading-rate hypothesis and the Euclidean Jolt as a unified cause of multiple injuries, advancing injury prediction and prevention science.

Findings

Euclidean Jolt as a universal injury cause

Impulsive, coupled forces cause injuries

New framework for injury prevention

Abstract

The prediction and prevention of traumatic brain injury, spinal injury and general musculo-skeletal injury is a very important aspect of preventive medical science. Recently, in a series of papers, I have proposed a new coupled loading-rate hypothesis as a unique cause of all above injuries. This new hypothesis states that the main cause of all mechanical injuries is a Euclidean Jolt, which is an impulsive loading that strikes any part of the human body (head, spine or any bone/joint) - in several coupled degrees-of-freedom simultaneously. It never goes in a single direction only. Also, it is never a static force. It is always an impulsive translational and/or rotational force, coupled to some human mass eccentricity. Keywords: traumatic brain injury, spinal injury, musculo-skeletal injury, coupled loading-rate hypothesis, Euclidean jolt