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Jason F Luck

Jason F Luck

Assistant Professor of the Practice in the Department of Biomedical Engineering
Biomedical Engineering
jason.luck@duke.edu
Box 90281, Durham, NC 27708-0281
Rm 1427 Fitzpatrick CIEMAS; 101 Science Drive, Hudson Hall Annex - Ofc RM257, Lab RM054, Durham, NC 27708-0281

Scholarly Works - Journal articles

Primary Creep Characterization in Porcine Lumbar Spine Subject to Repeated Loading.

Journal article Annals of biomedical engineering · April 2026 Low back pain (LBP) is a common medical condition worldwide, though the etiology of injuries causing most LBP is unknown. Flexion and repeated compression increase lumbar injury risk, yet the complex viscoelastic behavior of the lumbar spine has not been c ... Full text Cite

Cyclic Mechanism Affects Lumbar Spine Creep Response.

Journal article Ann Biomed Eng · April 2026 PURPOSE: This study aims to explore how cyclic loading influences creep response in the lumbar spine under combined flexion-compression loading. METHODS: Ten porcine functional spinal units (FSUs) were mechanically tested in cyclic or static combined flexi ... Full text Link to item Cite

Accuracy of Instrumented Mouthguards During Direct Jaw Impacts Seen in Boxing.

Journal article Annals of biomedical engineering · December 2024 PurposeMeasuring head kinematics data is important to understand and develop methods and standards to mitigate head injuries in contact sports. Instrumented mouthguards (iMGs) have been developed to address coupling issues with previous sensors. A ... Full text Cite

Quantifying and Comparing the Intersegmental Kinematics of the Pediatric Whole Cervical Spine to Individual Motion Segment Kinematics in a Six-Year-Old Postmortem Human Surrogate

Journal article SAE International Journal of Transportation Safety · November 12, 2024 Mitigating both neck and head injuries in the pediatric population relies heavily on improving our understanding of the underlying biomechanics of the pediatric cervical spine. The tensile response for individual motion segments and the whole cervical spin ... Full text Cite

Biofidelity and Limitations of Instrumented Mouthguard Systems for Assessment of Rigid Body Head Kinematics.

Journal article Annals of biomedical engineering · October 2024 Instrumented mouthguard systems (iMGs) are commonly used to study rigid body head kinematics across a variety of athletic environments. Previous work has found good fidelity for iMGs rigidly fixed to anthropomorphic test device (ATD) headforms when compare ... Full text Cite

Head Impact Telemetry System's Video-based Impact Detection and Location Accuracy.

Journal article Medicine and science in sports and exercise · October 2020 PurposeThis study aimed to quantify the Head Impact Telemetry (HIT) System's impact detection and location measurement accuracy using an impact biomechanics data set paired with video of high school football special teams plays.MethodsThe ... Full text Cite

The response of the pediatric head to impacts onto a rigid surface.

Journal article Journal of biomechanics · August 2019 The study of pediatric head injury relies heavily on the use of finite element models and child anthropomorphic test devices (ATDs). However, these tools, in the context of pediatric head injury, have yet to be validated due to a paucity of pediatric head ... Full text Cite

The role of cervical muscles in mitigating concussion.

Journal article Journal of science and medicine in sport · June 2019 ObjectivesIncreased neck strength has been hypothesized to lower sports related concussion risk, but lacks experimental evidence. The goal is to investigate the role cervical muscle strength plays in blunt impact head kinematics and the biofidelit ... Full text Cite

Dynamic Response and Residual Helmet Liner Crush Using Cadaver Heads and Standard Headforms.

Journal article Annals of biomedical engineering · March 2017 Biomechanical headforms are used for helmet certification testing and reconstructing helmeted head impacts; however, their biofidelity and direct applicability to human head and helmet responses remain unclear. Dynamic responses of cadaver heads and three ... Full text Cite

Bandwidth and sample rate requirements for wearable head impact sensors.

Journal article Journal of biomechanics · September 2016 Wearable inertial sensors measure human head impact kinematics important to the on-going development and validation of head injury criteria. However, sensor specifications have not been scientifically justified in the context of the anticipated field impac ... Full text Cite

Effect of the mandible on mouthguard measurements of head kinematics.

Journal article Journal of biomechanics · June 2016 Wearable sensors are becoming increasingly popular for measuring head motions and detecting head impacts. Many sensors are worn on the skin or in headgear and can suffer from motion artifacts introduced by the compliance of soft tissue or decoupling of hea ... Full text Cite

The compressive stiffness of human pediatric heads.

Journal article Journal of biomechanics · November 2015 Head injury is a persistent and costly problem for both children and adults. Globally, approximately 10 million people are hospitalized each year for head injuries. Knowing the structural properties of the head is important for modeling the response of the ... Full text Cite

The response of the adult and ATD heads to impacts onto a rigid surface.

Journal article Accident; analysis and prevention · November 2014 Given the high incidence of TBI, head injury has been studied extensively using both cadavers and anthropomorphic test devices (ATDs). However, few studies have benchmarked the response of ATD heads against human data. Hence, the objective of this study is ... Full text Cite

Pediatric head and neck dynamics in frontal impact: analysis of important mechanical factors and proposed neck performance corridors for 6- and 10-year-old ATDs.

Journal article Traffic injury prevention · January 2014 ObjectiveTraumatic injuries are the leading cause of death of children aged 1-19 in the United States and are principally caused by motor vehicle collisions, with the head being the primary region injured. The neck, though not commonly injured, go ... Full text Cite

Tensile failure properties of the perinatal, neonatal, and pediatric cadaveric cervical spine.

Journal article Spine · January 2013 Study designBiomechanical tensile testing of perinatal, neonatal, and pediatric cadaveric cervical spines to failure.ObjectiveTo assess the tensile failure properties of the cervical spine from birth to adulthood.Summary of background ... Full text Cite

Importance of muscle activations for biofidelic pediatric neck response in computational models.

Journal article Traffic injury prevention · January 2013 ObjectiveDuring dynamic injury scenarios, such as motor vehicle crashes, neck biomechanics contribute to head excursion and acceleration, influencing head injuries. One important tool in understanding head and neck dynamics is computational modeli ... Full text Cite

An apparatus for tensile and bending tests of perinatal, neonatal, pediatric and adult cadaver osteoligamentous cervical spines.

Journal article Journal of biomechanics · January 2012 Investigations of biomechanical properties of pediatric cadaver cervical spines subjected to tensile or bending modes of loading are generally limited by a lack of available tissue and limiting sample sizes, both per age and across age ranges. It is theref ... Full text Cite

Expansion and evaluation of data characterizing the structural behavior of the pediatric abdomen

Journal article Annals of advances in automotive medicine / Annual Scientific Conference ... Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine. Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine. Scientific Conference · January 1, 2010 Despite the importance of abdominal injuries in children involved in motor vehicle collisions, only two papers have reported experimental data quantifying the pediatric abdominal response to belt loading. One developed and characterized a porcine model of ... Cite

Pediatric thoracoabdominal biomechanics.

Journal article Stapp car crash journal · November 2009 No experimental data exist quantifying the force-deformation behavior of the pediatric chest when subjected to non-impact, dynamic loading from a diagonal belt or a distributed loading surface. Kent et al. (2006) previously published juvenile abdominal res ... Full text Cite

Tension and combined tension-extension structural response and tolerance properties of the human male ligamentous cervical spine.

Journal article Journal of biomechanical engineering · August 2009 Tensile loading of the human cervical spine results from noncontact inertial loading of the head as well as mandibular and craniofacial impacts. Current vehicle safety standards include a neck injury criterion based on beam theory that uses a linear combin ... Full text Cite

Tensile mechanical properties of the perinatal and pediatric PMHS osteoligamentous cervical spine.

Journal article Stapp car crash journal · November 2008 Pediatric cervical spine biomechanics have been under-researched due to the limited availability of pediatric post-mortem human subjects (PMHS). Scaled data based on human adult and juvenile animal studies have been utilized to augment the limited pediatri ... Full text Cite

Flexion and extension structural properties and strengths for male cervical spine segments.

Journal article Journal of biomechanics · January 2007 New vehicle safety standards are designed to limit the amount of neck tension and extension seen by out-of-position motor vehicle occupants during airbag deployments. The criteria used to assess airbag injury risk are currently based on volunteer data and ... Full text Cite

Mechanical properties and anthropometry of the human infant head.

Journal article Stapp car crash journal · November 2004 The adult head has been studied extensively and computationally modeled for impact, however there have been few studies that attempt to quantify the mechanical properties of the pediatric skull. Likewise, little documentation of pediatric anthropometry exi ... Full text Cite

The human cervical spine in tension: effects of frame and fixation compliance on structural responses.

Journal article Traffic injury prevention · June 2004 There is little data available on the responses of the human cervical spine to tensile loading. Such tests are mechanistically and technically challenging due to the variety of end conditions that need to be imposed and the difficulty of strong specimen fi ... Full text Cite

Comparative strengths and structural properties of the upper and lower cervical spine in flexion and extension.

Journal article J Biomech · June 2002 The purpose of this study is to test the hypothesis that the upper cervical spine is weaker than the lower cervical spine in pure flexion and extension bending, which may explain the propensity for upper cervical spine injuries in airbag deployments. An ad ... Full text Link to item Cite

Interstitial hydraulic conductivity in a fibrosarcoma.

Journal article Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol · December 2000 Convective transport of therapeutic agents in solid tumors can be improved through intratumoral infusion. To optimize the convection, we investigated the dependence of the hydraulic conductivity on tissue deformation induced by interstitial fluid pressure ... Full text Link to item Cite