Zablocki VA Medical Center Labs

Recent Publications

• Development of a detailed human neck finite element model and injury risk curves under lateral impact.

  (Meyer F, Humm J, Yoganandan N, Leszczynski A, Bourdet N, Deck C, Willinger R.) J Mech Behav Biomed Mater. 2021 04;116:104318 PMID: 33516127 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85100060408 01/31/2021

• Opportunities for Prevention of Concussion and Repetitive Head Impact Exposure in College Football Players: A Concussion Assessment, Research, and Education (CARE) Consortium Study.

  (McCrea MA, Shah A, Duma S, Rowson S, Harezlak J, McAllister TW, Broglio SP, Giza CC, Goldman J, Cameron KL, Houston MN, McGinty G, Jackson JC, Guskiewicz K, Mihalik JP, Brooks MA, Pasquina P, Stemper BD.) JAMA Neurol. 2021 Mar 01;78(3):346-350 PMID: 33523101 PMCID: PMC7851752 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85100463770 02/02/2021

• Pelvic Injury Risk Curves for the Military Populations From Lateral Impact.

  (Yoganandan N, Rooks TF, Chancey VC, Pintar FA, Banerjee A.) Mil Med. 2021 01 25;186(Suppl 1):424-429 PMID: 33499484 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85100590263 01/28/2021

• Upright Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study of Cervical Flexor/Extensor Musculature and Cervical Lordosis in Females After Helmet Wear.

  (Choi H, Varghese V, Baisden J, Braza DW, Banerjee A, Yoganandan N.) Mil Med. 2021 01 25;186(Suppl 1):632-638 PMID: 33499469 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85100475827 01/28/2021

• Comparative Finite Element Modeling Study of Anterior Cervical Arthrodesis Versus Cervical Arthroplasty With Bryan Disc or Prodisc C.

  (Choi H, Purushothaman Y, Baisden JL, Rajasekaran D, Jebaseelan D, Yoganandan N.) Mil Med. 2021 01 25;186(Suppl 1):737-744 PMID: 33499493 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85100451824 01/28/2021

• A Comparison of Nonhuman Primate Injuries in Horizontal Versus Vertical Sled +Gz (Head-to-Foot) Impact Accelerations.

  (Abraczinskas A, Olszko A, Beltran C, Baisden JL, Yoganandan N, McGhee J, McGovern S, Lidl G, Vasquez KB, Chancey VC.) Mil Med. 2021 01 25;186(Suppl 1):610-618 PMID: 33499482 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85100460939 01/28/2021

• Vertebral Level-dependent Kinematics of Female and Male Necks Under G+x Loading.

  (Yoganandan N, Baisden JL, John J, Saravana Kumar G, Banerjee A, Choi H.) Mil Med. 2021 01 25;186(Suppl 1):619-624 PMID: 33499461 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85100483889 01/28/2021

• Lower Neck Injury Assessment Risk Curves Based on Matched-Pair Human Data for Anthropomorphic Test Devices.

  (Humm J, Yoganandan N.) Mil Med. 2021 01 25;186(Suppl 1):639-644 PMID: 33499522 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85100499106 01/28/2021

• Neck Vertebral Level-specific Forces and Moments Under G-x Accelerative Loading.

  (Purushothaman Y, Humm J, Jebaseelan D, Yoganandan N.) Mil Med. 2021 01 25;186(Suppl 1):625-631 PMID: 33499473 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85100513311 01/28/2021

• Predictive Biomechanical Study on the Human Cervical Spine Under Complex Physiological Loading

  (Dilip Kumar S, Shruthi R, Deepak R, Davidson Jebaseelan D, Babu L, Yoganandan N.) IFMBE Proceedings. 2021;79:109-120 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85101307612 01/01/2021

• Influence of Compressive Preloading on Range of Motion and Endplate Stresses in the Cervical Spine During Flexion/Extension

  (Srinivasan S, Deepak R, Yuvaraj P, Davidson Jebaseelan D, Yoganandan N, Rajasekaran S.) IFMBE Proceedings. 2021;79:121-128 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85101300570 01/01/2021

• Trabecular bone mineral density correlations using QCT: Central and peripheral human skeleton.

  (Chirvi S, Pintar FA, Yoganandan N, Stemper B, Kleinberger M.) J Mech Behav Biomed Mater. 2020 12;112:104076 PMID: 32911222 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85090345796 09/11/2020

• An Improved Method for Developing Injury Risk Curves Using the Brier Metric Score.

  (Hostetler ZS, Hsu FC, Yoganandan N, Pintar FA, Banerjee A, Voo L, Gayzik FS.) Ann Biomed Eng. 2020 Nov 20 PMID: 33219439 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85096379124 11/22/2020

• Development and validation of an elderly human body model for frontal impacts.

  (Umale S, Khandelwal P, Humm J, Yoganandan N.) Traffic Inj Prev. 2020 Nov 11:1-3 PMID: 33174790 11/12/2020

• Do Head Injury Biomechanics Predict Concussion Clinical Recovery in College American Football Players?

  (Mihalik JP, Chandran A, Powell JR, Roby PR, Guskiewicz KM, Stemper BD, Shah AS, Rowson S, Duma S, Harezlak J, Riggen L, Broglio SP, McAllister TW, McCrea M, CARE Consortium Investigators.) Ann Biomed Eng. 2020 Nov;48(11):2555-2565 PMID: 33136240 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85094920232 11/03/2020

• Concussion Risk Between Individual Football Players: Survival Analysis of Recurrent Events and Non-events.

  (Rowson S, Campolettano ET, Duma SM, Stemper B, Shah A, Harezlak J, Riggen L, Mihalik JP, Brooks A, Cameron KL, Svoboda SJ, Houston MN, McAllister T, Broglio S, McCrea M.) Ann Biomed Eng. 2020 Nov;48(11):2626-2638 PMID: 33113020 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85094638792 10/29/2020

• High Energy Side and Rear American Football Head Impacts Cause Obvious Performance Decrement on Video.

  (Bartsch AJ, Hedin D, Alberts J, Benzel EC, Cruickshank J, Gray RS, Cameron K, Houston MN, Rooks T, McGinty G, Kozlowski E, Rowson S, Maroon JC, Miele VJ, Ashton JC, Siegmund GP, Shah A, McCrea M, Stemper B.) Ann Biomed Eng. 2020 Nov;48(11):2667-2677 PMID: 33111969 PMCID: PMC7674260 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85094663187 10/29/2020

• Intervertebral foramen narrowing during vertical dynamic loading.

  (Maiman D, Curry W, Yoganandan N, Pintar F.) Traffic Inj Prev. 2020 Oct 29:1-3 PMID: 33119411 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85094918598 10/30/2020

• Development of chest deflection injury risk curve in oblique frontal small female PMHS sled tests.

  (Humm J, Yoganandan N.) Traffic Inj Prev. 2020 Oct 23:1-2 PMID: 33095061 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85093692927 10/24/2020

• Head Impact Exposure in College Football after a Reduction in Preseason Practices.

  (Stemper BD, Shah AS, Mihalik JP, Harezlak J, Rowson S, Duma S, Riggen LD, Brooks A, Cameron KL, Giza CC, Goldman J, Houston MN, Jackson J, McGinty G, Broglio SP, McAllister TW, McCrea M.) Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2020 07;52(7):1629-1638 PMID: 32541378 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85086619828 06/17/2020

• Human lumbar spinal column injury criteria from vertical loading at the base: Applications to military environments.

  (Yoganandan N, Moore J, DeVogel N, Pintar F, Banerjee A, Baisden J, Zhang JY, Loftis K, Barnes D.) J Mech Behav Biomed Mater. 2020 05;105:103690 PMID: 32279845 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85082120274 04/14/2020

• A method to measure predictive ability of an injury risk curve using an observation-adjusted area under the receiver operating characteristic curve by A.M. Baker, F.C. Hsu, F.S. Gayzik (2018).

  (Banerjee A, Pintar FA, Yoganandan N.) J Biomech. 2020 02 13;100:109087 PMID: 30857754 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85078459038 03/13/2019

• Head Impact Exposure in College Football following a Reduction in Preseason Practices.

  (Stemper BD, Shah AS, Mihalik JP, Harezlak J, Rowson S, Duma S, Riggen LD, Brooks A, Cameron KL, Giza CC, Goldman J, Houston MN, Jackson J, McGinty G, Broglio SP, McAllister TW, McCrea M.) Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2020 Jan 21 PMID: 31977633 01/25/2020

• Measuring Blunt Force Head Impacts in Athletes.

  (Bartsch A, Dama R, Alberts J, Samorezov S, Benzel E, Miele V, Shah A, Humm J, McCrea M, Stemper B.) Mil Med. 2020 01 07;185(Suppl 1):190-196 PMID: 32074346 PMCID: PMC7029834 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85079762344 02/20/2020

• Identifying Feature Pattern for Weighted Imbalance Data: A Feature Selection Study for Thoracolumbar Spine Fractures in Crash Injury Research

  (Nitu PS, Madiraju P, Pintar FA.) Proceedings - 2020 IEEE 21st International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration for Data Science, IRI 2020. August 2020:142-147 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85092208308 08/01/2020

• Human Lumbar Spine Responses from Vertical Loading: Ranking of Forces Via Brier Score Metrics and Injury Risk Curves.

  (Yoganandan N, DeVogel N, Moore J, Pintar F, Banerjee A, Zhang J.) Ann Biomed Eng. 2020 Jan;48(1):79-91 PMID: 31576503 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85074130760 10/03/2019

• Lower neck injury criteria for THOR and Hybrid III dummies in rear impact

  (Yoganandan N, Humm J, Greenhalgh P, Somers J.) Traffic Injury Prevention. 2020 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85096122813 01/01/2020

• Development and validation of an elderly human body model for frontal impacts

  (Umale S, Khandelwal P, Humm J, Yoganandan N.) Traffic Injury Prevention. 2020 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85096108964 01/01/2020

• Human thoracolumbar spine tolerance to injury and mechanisms from caudo-cephalad impacts

  (Yoganandan N, Khandelwal P, Porwal V, Humm J.) ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Proceedings (IMECE). 2020;5 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85101261683 01/01/2020

• Analysis of Force Mitigation by Boots in Axial Impacts using a Lower Leg Finite Element Model.

  (Hampton CE, Kleinberger M, Schlick M, Yoganandan N, Pintar FA.) Stapp Car Crash J. 2019 Nov;63:267-289 PMID: 32311060 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85083811781 04/21/2020

• Repetitive Head Impact Exposure in College Football Following an NCAA Rule Change to Eliminate Two-A-Day Preseason Practices: A Study from the NCAA-DoD CARE Consortium.

  (Stemper BD, Shah AS, Harezlak J, Rowson S, Duma S, Mihalik JP, Riggen LD, Brooks A, Cameron KL, Giza CC, Houston MN, Jackson J, Posner MA, McGinty G, DiFiori J, Broglio SP, McAllister TW, McCrea M, And the CARE Consortium Investigators.) Ann Biomed Eng. 2019 Oct;47(10):2073-2085 PMID: 31388849 PMCID: PMC6785580 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85071765268 08/08/2019

• Accounting for Variance in Concussion Tolerance Between Individuals: Comparing Head Accelerations Between Concussed and Physically Matched Control Subjects.

  (Rowson S, Campolettano ET, Duma SM, Stemper B, Shah A, Harezlak J, Riggen L, Mihalik JP, Guskiewicz KM, Giza C, Brooks A, Cameron K, McAllister T, Broglio SP, McCrea M.) Ann Biomed Eng. 2019 Oct;47(10):2048-2056 PMID: 31342336 PMCID: PMC6785592 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85069739111 07/26/2019

• Factors Affecting Head Impact Exposure in College Football Practices: A Multi-Institutional Study.

  (Campolettano ET, Rowson S, Duma SM, Stemper B, Shah A, Harezlak J, Riggen LD, Mihalik J, Brooks A, Cameron K, Giza CC, McAllister T, Broglio SP, McCrea M.) Ann Biomed Eng. 2019 Oct;47(10):2086-2093 PMID: 31240507 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85068104737 06/27/2019

• Anatomically-based skeletal coordinate systems for use with impact biomechanics data intended for anthropomorphic test device development.

  (Slykhouse L, Zaseck LW, Miller C, Humm JR, Alai A, Kang YS, Dooley C, Sherman D, Bigler B, Demetropoulos CK, Reed MP, Rupp JD.) J Biomech. 2019 Jul 19;92:162-168 PMID: 31164224 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85066318037 06/06/2019

• Laboratory and On-field Data Collected by a Head Impact Monitoring Mouthguard.

  (Bartsch AJ, McCrea MM, Hedin DS, Gibson PL, Miele VJ, Benzel EC, Alberts JL, Samorezov S, Shah A, Stemper BS.) Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2019 Jul;2019:2068-2072 PMID: 31946308 PMCID: PMC7592723 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85077907145 01/18/2020

• Development of a Methodology for Simulating Complex Head Impacts With the Advanced Combat Helmet.

  (Begonia M, Rooks T, Pintar FA, Yoganandan N.) Mil Med. 2019 03 01;184(Suppl 1):237-244 PMID: 30901450 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85063669144 03/23/2019

• Pelvis injury risk curves in side impacts from human cadaver experiments using survival analysis and Brier score metrics.

  (Yoganandan N, Humm JR, DeVogel N, Banerjee A, Pintar FA, Somers JT.) Traffic Inj Prev. 2019;20(sup2):S137-S142 PMID: 31762331 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85075533492 11/26/2019

• THOR dummy chest deflection response in oblique and lateral far-side sled tests.

  (Yoganandan N, Hauschild H, Humm J, Purushothaman Y, Pintar FA.) Traffic Inj Prev. 2019;20(sup1):S32-S37 PMID: 31381439 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85070252572 08/06/2019

• Compression-based injury variables from chestbands in far-side impact THOR sled tests.

  (Purushothaman Y, Humm J, Jebaseelan D, Yoganandan N.) Traffic Inj Prev. 2019;20(sup2):S179-S182 PMID: 31674854 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85074575503 11/02/2019

• Effectiveness of center-mounted airbag in far-side impacts based on THOR sled tests

  (Umale S, Hauschild H, Humm J, Driesslein K, Yoganandan N.) Traffic Injury Prevention. 2019 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85072045317 01/01/2019