“…To address this limitation, researchers have reported methods for calculating loads and moments at the upper cervical spine in adult human volunteers and post mortem human subjects (PMHS) by transforming accelerations measured externally on the head to the center of gravity of the head using standard dynamics equations (Mertz and Patrick, 1967;Ewing and Thomas, 1973;Sundararajan et al, 2004;Funk et al, 2009). Using these approaches, adult head and neck forces and moments have been reported in low-speed rear impacts (Howard et al, 1998;Ono et al, 1997;Vijayakumar et al, 2006) and frontal loading at various speeds (Lopez-Valdes et al, 2010a;Wismans et al, 1986). However, similar studies involving pediatric subjects are completely absent from the literature.…”