The Information On This
Page Is Courtesy Of
The
Spinal Injury Foundation
The Save Your Neck
program is designed to increase public awareness about neck and
spinal injuries with the ultimate goal of preventing those injuries.
Tens of thousands of
people each year receive permanent spinal injuries as a result of
rear end crashes. Many of these are not externally visible injuries,
but damage to critical nerves, joints, ligaments, and bones. Most of
these life changing injuries can be prevented or minimized with
proper seat design and public awareness
Why
Save Your Neck?
The Insurance
Institute for Highway Safety has determined that
headrests that are rated good reduce neck injury rates.
However, in one recent study, only a small portion of drivers had
their head restraints in the correct position. For drivers
that were protected by a good system:
- Drivers
in cars with head restraints rated good are 24 percent less likely
to suffer neck injuries in rear-end crashes than drivers with head
restraints rated poor. Percentages of drivers with neck injuries
ranged from 22 percent of those with good head restraints to 27
percent of those with poor head restraints.
- Female
drivers have higher neck injury rates overall than male drivers --
30 percent versus 23 percent.
- Neck
injury likelihood was 36 percent lower among female drivers with
good head restraints than among females with poor restraints.
Among male drivers, the risk reduction was 10 percent with good
head restraints.
- Drivers
65 and older have lower neck injury rates overall than younger
drivers -- 13 percent versus 27 percent among drivers 50 to 64
years old and 33 percent among drivers 49 and younger.
Want
to see more research?
Click here for PubMed
articles on whiplash and head restraints research since
1990!
Informational
Materials
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