The IIHS will begin evaluating how well vehicles protect occupants from rotational brain injuries.

Until now, there has not been an effective way to assess the risk of rotational brain injury in crash tests. However, thanks ...

Known as the Closed Head Induced Model of Engineered Rotational Acceleration (CHIMERA ... and cognitive deficits induced by ...

Rotational motion is a common cause for concussions and more severe brain injuries in oblique hits to the head. In most instances when people fall while moving and hit their head, they don’t hit ...

The problem is that conventional industrial safety helmets most often protect against injuries such as skull fractures, but do not reduce rotational motion to a sufficient level. Our brain is ...

Crash safety is evolving, and a new metric could help better evaluate brain injury risks caused by rotational forces during accidents. While modern vehicles ...

Imagine wrapping a fragile glass in bubble wrap before placing it inside a box. If the box is dropped, the bubble wrap ...

IIHS hopes that, by incorporating DAMAGE into its analysis of crash tests, it will be able to inform improvements to airbag design that can reduce the risk of brain injuries. Currently ...

“In particular, the new helmet will offer a higher level of protection against (mild traumatic brain injuries) from high velocity impacts and rotational loads.” Further testing is still on ...