Date of Award

Summer 2001

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science in Education (MSEd)

Department

Human Movement Sciences

Program/Concentration

Physical Education

Committee Director

Elizabeth Dowling

Committee Member

Charles Jackson

Committee Member

Donald Sussman

Committee Member

Michael Woodhouse

Call Number for Print

Special Collections LD4331.E44 W55 200

Abstract

Whiplash Associated Disorder (WAD) cases millions of injuries and billions of dollars in litigation and medical cost. The purpose of this study was to determine if any relationship existed between certain occupant and vehicular constants and the onset and severity of WAD. One hundred subjects involved in low-speed collisions were selected from an active database. Fifty-nine subjects were females and 70% of the subjects were drivers. A discriminant function analysis was performed, with occupant position and duration as the only variables that had significant discriminating power. However, eighty-four percent of the subjects experienced 100millisecond accelerations and 70% were drivers. Therefore, it was concluded that there needs to be further fine tuning to distinguish between the various levels of WAD and there were no significant gender or body composition differences that preclude a person to suffering WAD.

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DOI

10.25777/8xv1-qm10

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