TY - JOUR A1 - Penzkofer, Rainer A1 - Barnsteiner, K. A1 - Dendorfer, Sebastian T1 - The influence of age, shoe type and kicking direction on the severity of head trauma JF - Journal of Forensic Biomechanics N2 - In the last few years, increasingly kicks to the head were observed as a criminal offense. This study examined the influence of age, shoe type and kicking direction on the severity of head trauma. Male test persons were divided into two groups “Old” and “Young”. Both groups were equipped with light sneakers and combat boots. A standard laboratory crash dummy was used to simulate the victim’s body. First, the dummy’s head, free floating above the ground, was kicked vertically. Second, the dummy’s head was kicked horizontally. Established injury criteria were used to quantify the injury risk. No influence concerning the type of foot wear and no difference between the groups “Old” and “Young” could be found. For all analyses, kicking vertically generally lead to a higher risk for the subject compared to kicking horizontally. In this study, only the integral effect of the kicks could be analyzed. A detailed injury pattern cannot directly be derived from the data. Nevertheless, the presented data show the massive potential of injuries associated with head kicks. KW - Head trauma KW - Biomechanics KW - Kicks KW - Kopfverletzung KW - Schädel-Hirn-Trauma KW - Einflussgröße Y1 - 2014 UR - https://www.longdom.org/open-access/the-influence-of-age-shoe-type-and-kicking-direction-on-the-severity-of-head-trauma-2090-2697-1000116.pdf U6 - https://doi.org/10.4172/2090-2697.1000116 VL - 5 IS - 1 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lautenschläger, Toni A1 - Leis, Alexander A1 - Dendorfer, Sebastian A1 - Palm, Christoph A1 - Schreiner, Rupert A1 - Langer, Christoph A1 - Prommesberger, Christian A1 - Ławrowski, Robert Damian A1 - Dams, Florian A1 - Bornmann, Benjamin A1 - Navitski, Aliaksandr A1 - Serbun, Pavel A1 - Müller, Günter A1 - Liebetruth, Thomas A1 - Kohlert, Dieter A1 - Pernsteiner, Jochen A1 - Schreier, Franz A1 - Heerklotz, Sabrina A1 - Heerklotz, Allwin A1 - Boos, Alexander A1 - Herwald, Dominik A1 - Monkman, Gareth J. A1 - Treiber, Daniel A1 - Mayer, Matthias A1 - Hörner, Eva A1 - Bentz, Alexander A1 - Shamonin (Chamonine), Mikhail A1 - Johansen, Søren Peter A1 - Reichel, Marco A1 - Stoll, Andrea A1 - Briem, Ulrich A1 - Dullien, Silvia A1 - Renkawitz, Tobias A1 - Weber, Tim A1 - Dendorfer, Sebastian A1 - Grifka, Joachim A1 - Penzkofer, Rainer A1 - Barnsteiner, K. A1 - Jovanovik, M. A1 - Wernecke, P. A1 - Vögele, A. A1 - Bachmann, T. A1 - Plötz, Martin A1 - Schliekmann, Claus A1 - Wels, Harald A1 - Helmberger, Paul A1 - Kaspar, M. A1 - Hönicka, M. A1 - Schrammel, Siegfried A1 - Enser, Markus A1 - Schmidmeier, Monika A1 - Schroll-Decker, Irmgard A1 - Haug, Sonja A1 - Gelfert, Verena A1 - Vernim, Matthias ED - Baier, Wolfgang T1 - Forschungsbericht 2012 T3 - Forschungsberichte der OTH Regensburg - 2012 Y1 - 2012 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:898-opus4-7834 CY - Regensburg ER -