Pediatric Injury Biomechanics Lab | Mechanical Engineering | University of Utah

The biological structures of children are continually changing. Their rapid growth and development makes identification of age-dependent structural and mechanical properties crucial to understanding pediatric injury and disease. In the Pediatric Head and Eye Trauma Lab, we explore the microscopic and macroscopic structure of the head and eye at different stages of development, and use principals of engineering to characterize the biomechanical response of these structures to injury and disease. These data not only help us understand the initiation of injury and disease, but also allow us to design and implement accurate and complex computer models that can accelerate the development of injury prevention, diagnosis and treatment strategies for head and eye injury in children.