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Save Your Neck Program
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 TO HOST A SAVE
YOUR NECK EVENT AND HELP OTHERS
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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:
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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.
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Female drivers have higher neck injury rates overall than male drivers --
30 percent versus 23 percent.
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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.
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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.
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ADJUST YOUR HEAD SUPPORT Save your neck
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Video Materials To Help
with Understanding Crash Injury
This link will take you to video demonstrations
about how injury happens and preventive measures you can take.
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