Kids are considered to be the delicate flowers, which are supposed to be nurtured with care and love. They have to be protected, not even emotionally but also physically. Often, adults don’t use precautions while they travel with their children in the car. And that is where they need to be cautious, since a new study has found that a child’s spine is much more flexible and soft as compared to an adult, and thus is prone to severe injuries if met with an accident.

The study was conducted by researchers at Sydney, who experimented on lamb’s spine, which is quite similar to a young human child’s spine. The results showed that a child’s spine is three times more flexible than that of an adult, and thus is more vulnerable to spinal damage in a car crash than previously thought.

Liz Clarke, of Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute in Sydney said that their studies found huge differences in flexibility and stiffness between young and mature spines. She further added that in a collision, a younger, more flexible, spine is more likely to place greater strain on the spinal cord inside.

The researchers used the spines of sheep’s corpse, since it has quite a similar spinal biomechanics as of humans.

The researchers used child dummies for the test, which had similar height and weight to a real child. Thus, the results obtained are quite accurate and clear. Clarke feels that the new generation of crash dummy designs was needed for the children, to make their traveling in the cars safer.

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