Barry S. Myers

Research Themes

Biomechanics & Mechanobiology

Research Interests

An expert in head and neck impact injury biomechanics, Dr. Myers is interested in translational research innovation—overseeing programs to advance faculty research to market.

Bio

Dr. Myers has been a member of the Duke faculty since 1991 and has just completed a three-year role as Managing Director of Licensing and Ventures. His research examines the biomechanics of head and neck injury with the goal of injury prevention. Dr. Myers founded and directs the Coulter Foundation Translational Partnership Program at Duke that provides $1 MM in early stage funding and management to faculty health care innovations annually with a goal of licensing and creating new life science start-up companies. He is also Director of Innovation in the newly formed Duke CTSI where he is responsible for the consult service that provides funding and project management support to faculty translational research projects in the Duke Medical Center.  Dr. Myers created and leads a national translational research fund intended to reduce injuries in professional football (https://www.playsmartplaysafe.com/headhealthtech/). Taken together he oversees over $3,000,000/year in funding for life science projects. He also maintains an active consulting practice including the NFL-PA and NASCAR while serving as an Executive-in-Residence at Pappas Ventures advising several start-up companies.

Dr. Myers is considered by many as the preeminent researcher in his field worldwide, having over 100 manuscripts and publications on the subject. Among Dr. Myers many honors are the Stapp Award of Recognition, and the Isbrandt Award for automotive safety from the Society of Automotive Engineers. He is the six-time winner of the Stapp Award for research in impact biomechanics, more than any other individual, and also the Bertil Aldman award for impact biomechanics research. Dr. Myers has worked with all major organizations concerned with safety in the United States including the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the Consumer Product Safety Commission and the National Operating Committee on Standards for Athletic Equipment. Because of his breadth of experience in injury prevention, Dr. Myers was appointed to the position of Senior Scientific Advisor to the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control for two years. He has also consulted with most major automobile manufactures and automotive racing organizations worldwide.

Dr. Myers is a Distinguished Professor at Duke University, having received the Bass Chair in recognition of his accomplishments in research and teaching. He is the faculty advisor to four student best graduate student paper competition winners at national meetings. He was responsible for the 2004 revision of the Pratt School of Engineering undergraduate curriculum. He has served as Director of Undergraduate Studies and Director of Graduate Studies for the Department of Biomedical Engineering. He has also served as Senior Associate Dean for Industrial Partnerships and the Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship and Research Commercialization in the Pratt School of Engineering.

Education

• B.S. University of Toronto (Canada), 1985
• M.D. Duke University, School of Medicine, 1991
• Ph.D. Duke University, 1991
• M.B.A. Duke University, 2004

Positions

• Professor of Biomedical Engineering
• Core Faculty in Innovation & Entrepreneurship
• Bass Fellow

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

• Fellow. American Institute for Medical & Biological Engineering. 2008
• Founders Award. Southern Consortium for Injury Biomechanics. 2008
• Fellow. American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. 2003

Publications

• Bailey AM, Funk JR, Crandall JR, Myers BS, Arbogast KB. Laboratory Evaluation of Shell Add-On Products for American Football Helmets for Professional Linemen. Annals of biomedical engineering. 2021 Oct;49(10):2747–59.
• Bailey AM, Sanchez EJ, Park G, Gabler LF, Funk JR, Crandall JR, et al. Development and Evaluation of a Test Method for Assessing the Performance of American Football Helmets. Annals of biomedical engineering. 2020 Nov;48(11):2566–79.
• Lessley DJ, Kent RW, Cormier JM, Sherwood CP, Funk JR, Crandall JR, et al. Position-Specific Circumstances of Concussions in the NFL: Toward the Development of Position-Specific Helmets. Annals of biomedical engineering. 2020 Nov;48(11):2542–54.
• Funk JR, Jadischke R, Bailey A, Crandall J, McCarthy J, Arbogast K, et al. Laboratory Reconstructions of Concussive Helmet-to-Helmet Impacts in the National Football League. Annals of biomedical engineering. 2020 Nov;48(11):2652–66.
• Bailey AM, McMurry TL, Cormier JM, Funk JR, Crandall JR, Mack CD, et al. Comparison of Laboratory and On-Field Performance of American Football Helmets. Annals of biomedical engineering. 2020 Nov;48(11):2531–41.
• Kent R, Forman J, Bailey A, Cormier J, Park G, Crandall J, et al. Surface Contact Features, Impact Obliquity, and Preimpact Rotational Motion in Concussive Helmet-to-Ground Impacts: Assessment via a New Impact Test Device. Annals of biomedical engineering. 2020 Nov;48(11):2639–51.
• Kent R, Forman J, Bailey AM, Funk J, Sherwood C, Crandall J, et al. The biomechanics of concussive helmet-to-ground impacts in the National Football league. Journal of biomechanics. 2020 Jan;99:109551.
• Loyd AM, Nightingale RW, Luck JF, Bass CD, Cutcliffe HC, Myers BS. The response of the pediatric head to impacts onto a rigid surface. Journal of biomechanics. 2019 Aug;93:167–76.
• Nightingale RW, Bass CR, Myers BS. On the relative importance of bending and compression in cervical spine bilateral facet dislocation. Clinical biomechanics (Bristol, Avon). 2019 Apr;64:90–7.
• Lessley DJ, Kent RW, Funk JR, Sherwood CP, Cormier JM, Crandall JR, et al. Video Analysis of Reported Concussion Events in the National Football League During the 2015-2016 and 2016-2017 Seasons. The American journal of sports medicine. 2018 Dec;46(14):3502–10.
• Myers BS, Hallford CR. Understanding venture capital in the health industry. In: Medical Innovation: Concept to Commercialization. 2018. p. 65–75.
• Cox CA, Dibb AT, Myers BS, Nightingale RW, Bass CR. Adult head and neck dynamics: A sensitivity analysis study during frontal impact. In 2016.
• Loyd AM, Nightingale RW, Luck JF, Song Y, Fronheiser L, Cutcliffe H, et al. The compressive stiffness of human pediatric heads. Journal of biomechanics. 2015 Nov;48(14):3766–75.
• Adamski KN, Loyd AM, Samost A, Myers B, Nightingale R, Smith K, et al. Pediatric Coronal Suture Fiber Alignment and the Effect of Interdigitation on Coronal Suture Mechanical Properties. Annals of biomedical engineering. 2015 Sep;43(9):2101–11.
• Nightingale RW, Myers BS, Yoganandan N. Neck injury biomechanics. 2015.
• Loyd AM, Nightingale RW, Song Y, Luck JF, Cutcliffe H, Myers BS, et al. The response of the adult and ATD heads to impacts onto a rigid surface. Accident; analysis and prevention. 2014 Nov;72:219–29.
• Cox CA, Dibb AT, Cutcliffe HC, Nightingale RW, Myers BS, Vasavada AN, et al. The influence of muscle modeling methods and paths on head and neck response. In: 11th World Congress on Computational Mechanics, WCCM 2014, 5th European Conference on Computational Mechanics, ECCM 2014 and 6th European Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics, ECFD 2014. 2014. p. 811–22.
• Dibb AT, Cutcliffe HC, Luck JF, Cox CA, Myers BS, Bass CR, et al. 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. Traffic injury prevention. 2014 Jan;15(4):386–94.
• Lee C, Loyd AM, Nightingale R, Myers BS, Damon A, Bass CR. Three-dimensional adult male head and skull contours. Traffic injury prevention. 2014 Jan;15(4):402–6.
• Wood GW, Panzer MB, Shridharani JK, Matthews KA, Capehart BP, Myers BS, et al. Attenuation of blast pressure behind ballistic protective vests. Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention. 2013 Feb;19(1):19–25.
• Panzer MB, Myers BS, Bass CR. Mesh considerations for finite element blast modelling in biomechanics. Computer methods in biomechanics and biomedical engineering. 2013 Jan;16(6):612–21.
• Luck JF, Nightingale RW, Song Y, Kait JR, Loyd AM, Myers BS, et al. Tensile failure properties of the perinatal, neonatal, and pediatric cadaveric cervical spine. Spine (Phila Pa 1976). 2013 Jan 1;38(1):E1-12.
• Dibb AT, Cox CA, Nightingale RW, Luck JF, Cutcliffe HC, Myers BS, et al. Importance of muscle activations for biofidelic pediatric neck response in computational models. Traffic injury prevention. 2013 Jan;14 Suppl:S116–27.
• Loyd AM, Nightingale RW, Song Y, Luck JF, Cutcliffe H, Myers BS, et al. Impact properties of adult and ATD heads. In: 2012 IRCOBI Conference Proceedings - International Research Council on the Biomechanics of Injury. 2012. p. 552–64.
• Davis MT, Loyd AM, Shen H-YH, Mulroy MH, Nightingale RW, Myers BS, et al. The mechanical and morphological properties of 6 year-old cranial bone. Journal of biomechanics. 2012 Oct;45(15):2493–8.
• Panzer MB, Myers BS, Capehart BP, Bass CR. Development of a finite element model for blast brain injury and the effects of CSF cavitation. Annals of biomedical engineering. 2012 Jul;40(7):1530–44.
• Mulroy MH, Loyd AM, Frush DP, Verla TG, Myers BS, Bass CRD. Evaluation of pediatric skull fracture imaging techniques. Forensic Sci Int. 2012 Jan 10;214(1–3):167–72.
• Varghese S, Engler AJ. Musculoskeletal cell mechanics. In: Orthopaedic Biomechanics. 2012. p. 301–23.
• Loyd AM, Nightingale R, Bass CRD, Mertz HJ, Frush D, Daniel C, et al. Pediatric Head Contours and Inertial Properties for ATD Design. In: SAE Technical Papers. 2010.
• Loyd AM, Nightingale R, Bass CR, Mertz HJ, Frush D, Daniel C, et al. Pediatric head contours and inertial properties for ATD design. Stapp Car Crash J. 2010 Nov;54:167–96.
• Wood GW, Panzer MB, Bass CR, Myers BS. Viscoelastic properties of Hybrid III head skin. SAE Technical Papers. 2010 Jan 1;186–93.
• Panzer MB, Bass CR, Salzar RS, Pellettiere J, Myers B. Evaluation of ear-mounted sensors for determining impact head acceleration. International Research Council on the Biomechanics of Injury - 2009 International IRCOBI Conference on the Biomechanics of Injury, Proceedings. 2009 Dec 1;319–22.
• Dibb AT, Nightingale RW, Luck JF, Chancey VC, Fronheiser LE, Myers BS. Tension and combined tension-extension structural response and tolerance properties of the human male ligamentous cervical spine. J Biomech Eng. 2009 Aug;131(8):081008.
• Luck JF, Nightingale RW, Loyd AM, Prange MT, Dibb AT, Song Y, et al. Tensile Mechanical Properties of the Perinatal and Pediatric PMHS Osteoligamentous Cervical Spine. In: SAE Technical Papers. 2008.
• Luck JF, Nightingale RW, Loyd AM, Prange MT, Dibb AT, Song Y, et al. Tensile mechanical properties of the perinatal and pediatric PMHS osteoligamentous cervical spine. Stapp car crash journal. 2008 Nov;52:107–34.
• Finan JD, Nightingale RW, Myers BS. The influence of reduced friction on head injury metrics in helmeted head impacts. Traffic Inj Prev. 2008 Oct;9(5):483–8.
• Siegmund GP, Davis MB, Quinn KP, Hines E, Myers BS, Ejima S, et al. Head-turned postures increase the risk of cervical facet capsule injury during whiplash. Spine. 2008 Jul;33(15):1643–9.
• Chancey VC, Ottaviano D, Myers BS, Nightingale RW. A kinematic and anthropometric study of the upper cervical spine and the occipital condyles. J Biomech. 2007;40(9):1953–9.
• Nightingale RW, Carol Chancey V, Ottaviano D, Luck JF, Tran L, Prange M, et al. Flexion and extension structural properties and strengths for male cervical spine segments. J Biomech. 2007;40(3):535–42.
• Margulies S, Prange M, Myers BS, Maltese MR, Ji S, Ning X, et al. Shaken baby syndrome: a flawed biomechanical analysis. Forensic science international. 2006 Dec;164(2–3):278–9.
• Dibb AT, Nightingale RW, Chancey VC, Fronheiser LE, Tran L, Ottaviano D, et al. Comparative Structural Neck Responses of the THOR-NT, Hybrid III, and Human in Combined Tension-Bending and Pure Bending. In: SAE Technical Papers. 2006.
• Prange MT, Luck JF, Dibb A, Van Ee CA, Nightingale RW, Myers BS. Mechanical properties and anthropometry of the human infant head. Stapp car crash journal. 2004 Nov;48:279–99.
• Oi N, Pandy MG, Myers BS, Nightingale RW, Chancey VC. Variation of Neck Muscle Strength Along the Human Cervical Spine. In: SAE Technical Papers. 2004.
• Burnett R, Carter J, Roberts V, Myers B. The influence of seatback characteristics on cervical injury risk in severe rear impacts. Accident; analysis and prevention. 2004 Jul;36(4):591–601.
• Nightingale RW, Chancey VC, Luck JF, Tran L, Ottaviano D, Myers BS. The human cervical spine in tension: effects of frame and fixation compliance on structural responses. Traffic injury prevention. 2004 Jun;5(2):151–5.
• Quinlan KP, Annest JL, Myers B, Ryan G, Hill H. Neck strains and sprains among motor vehicle occupants-United States, 2000. Accident; analysis and prevention. 2004 Jan;36(1):21–7.
• Chancey VC, Nightingale RW, Van Ee CA, Knaub KE, Myers BS. Improved estimation of human neck tensile tolerance: reducing the range of reported tolerance using anthropometrically correct muscles and optimized physiologic initial conditions. Stapp car crash journal. 2003 Oct;47:135–53.
• Siegmund GP, Sanderson DJ, Myers BS, Inglis JT. Awareness affects the response of human subjects exposed to a single whiplash-like perturbation. Spine. 2003 Apr;28(7):671–9.
• Siegmund GP, Sanderson DJ, Myers BS, Inglis JT. Rapid neck muscle adaptation alters the head kinematics of aware and unaware subjects undergoing multiple whiplash-like perturbations. Journal of biomechanics. 2003 Apr;36(4):473–82.
• Shah AN, Pietrobon R, Richardson WJ, Myers BS. Patterns of tumor spread and risk of fracture and epidural impingement in metastatic vertebrae. J Spinal Disord Tech. 2003 Feb;16(1):83–9.
• Winkelstein BA, Myers BS. Importance of nonlinear and multivariable flexibility coefficients in the prediction of human cervical spine motion. Journal of biomechanical engineering. 2002 Oct;124(5):504–11.
• Nightingale RW, Winkelstein BA, Knaub KE, Richardson WJ, Luck JF, Myers BS. Comparative strengths and structural properties of the upper and lower cervical spine in flexion and extension. J Biomech. 2002 Jun;35(6):725–32.
• Siegmund GP, Myers BS, Davis MB, Bohnet HF, Winkelstein BA. Mechanical evidence of cervical facet capsule injury during whiplash: a cadaveric study using combined shear, compression, and extension loading. Spine. 2001 Oct;26(19):2095–101.
• Camacho DL, Nightingale RW, Myers BS. The influence of surface padding properties on head and neck injury risk. J Biomech Eng. 2001 Oct;123(5):432–9.
• Winkelstein BA, McLendon RE, Barbir A, Myers BS. An anatomical investigation of the human cervical facet capsule, quantifying muscle insertion area. J Anat. 2001 Apr;198(Pt 4):455–61.
• Winkelstein BA, McLendon RE, Barbir ANA, Myers BS. An anatomical investigation of the human cervical facet capsule, quantifying muscle insertion area. Journal of Anatomy. 2001;198(4):455–61.
• Fields MJ, Hoshijima K, Feng AH, Richardson WJ, Myers BS. A biomechanical, radiologic, and clinical comparison of outcome after multilevel cervical laminectomy or laminoplasty in the rabbit. Spine (Phila Pa 1976). 2000 Nov 15;25(22):2925–31.
• Winkelstein BA, Myers BS. Experimental and computational characterization of three-dimensional cervical spine flexibility. Stapp car crash journal. 2000 Nov;44:139–58.
• Siegmund G, Myers BS. Human Cervical Motion Segment Flexibility and Facet Capsular Ligament Strain under Combined Posterior Shear, Extension and Axial Compression. In: SAE Technical Papers. 2000.
• Winkelstein BA, Nightingale RW, Richardson WJ, Myers BS. The cervical facet capsule and its role in whiplash injury: a biomechanical investigation. Spine (Phila Pa 1976). 2000 May 15;25(10):1238–46.
• Fields MJ, Hoshijima K, Richardson WJ, Myers BS. Clinical outcome scales for use in a rabbit model of cervical myelopathy. J Spinal Disord. 2000 Apr;13(2):124–30.
• Nightingale RW, Camacho DL, Armstrong AJ, Robinette JJ, Myers BS. Inertial properties and loading rates affect buckling modes and injury mechanisms in the cervical spine. J Biomech. 2000 Feb;33(2):191–7.
• Van Ee CA, Chasse AL, Myers BS. Quantifying skeletal muscle properties in cadaveric test specimens: effects of mechanical loading, postmortem time, and freezer storage. Journal of biomechanical engineering. 2000 Feb;122(1):9–14.
• Winkelstein BA, Richardson WJ, Myers BS. Mechanical investigation of the role of the cervical facet capsule in whiplash injury. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Bioengineering Division (Publication) BED. 1999 Dec 1;42:169–70.
• Winkelstein BA, Nightingale RW, Richardson WJ, Myers BS. Cervical facet joint mechanics: Its application to whiplash injury. Stapp Car Crash Conference Proceedings. 1999 Dec 1;P-350:243–52.
• Camacho DL, Nightingale RW, Myers BS. Surface friction in near-vertex head and neck impact increases risk of injury. J Biomech. 1999 Mar;32(3):293–301.
• Myers BS, Woolley CT, Slotter TL, Garrett WE, Best TM. The influence of strain rate on the passive and stimulated engineering stress--large strain behavior of the rabbit tibialis anterior muscle. Journal of biomechanical engineering. 1998 Feb;120(1):126–32.
• Van Ee CA, Chasse AL, Myers BS. The effect of postmortem time and freezer storage on the mechanical properties of skeletal muscle. SAE Technical Papers. 1998 Jan 1;
• Camacho DLA, Nightingale RW, Myers BS. Computational modeling of axial neck impact: Influence of head motion and cervical spine buckling on dynamic behavior. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Applied Mechanics Division, AMD. 1997 Dec 1;225:275–90.
• Camacho DL, Nightingale RW, Robinette JJ, Vanguri SK, Coates DJ, Myers BS. Experimental flexibility measurements for the development of a computational head-neck model validated for near-vertex head impact. Stapp Car Crash Conference Proceedings. 1997 Nov 1;(P-315):473–86.
• Nightingale RW, Richardson WJ, Myers BS. The effects of padded surfaces on the risk for cervical spine injury. Spine (Phila Pa 1976). 1997 Oct 15;22(20):2380–7.
• Camacho DL, Hopper RH, Lin GM, Myers BS. An improved method for finite element mesh generation of geometrically complex structures with application to the skullbase. Journal of biomechanics. 1997 Oct;30(10):1067–70.
• Winkelstein BA, Myers BS. The biomechanics of cervical spine injury and implications for injury prevention. Medicine and science in sports and exercise. 1997 Jul;29(7 Suppl):S246–55.
• Winkelstein BA, Myers BS. The biomechanics of cervical spine injury and implications for injury prevention. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise. 1997 Jul 1;29(7 SUPPL.).
• Hoshijima K, Nightingale RW, Yu JR, Richardson WJ, Harper KD, Yamamoto H, et al. Strength and stability of posterior lumbar interbody fusion. Comparison of titanium fiber mesh implant and tricortical bone graft. Spine (Phila Pa 1976). 1997 Jun 1;22(11):1181–8.
• Nightingale RW, Armstrong AJ, Camacho DL, Myers BS. CERVICAL SPINE BUCKLING: THE EFFECTS OF VERTEBRAL MASS AND LOADING RATE. In: ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Proceedings (IMECE). 1997. p. 231–2.
• Camacho DLA, Nightingale RW, Myers BS. COMPUTATIONAL MODELING OF AXIAL NECK IMPACT: INFLUENCE OF HEAD MOTION AND CERVICAL SPINE BUCKLING ON DYNAMIC BEHAVIOR. In: ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Proceedings (IMECE). 1997. p. 275–90.
• Nightingale RW, Armstrong AJ, Camacho DL, Myers BS. Cervical spine buckling: The effects of vertebral mass and loading rate. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Bioengineering Division (Publication) BED. 1997;36:231–2.
• Camacho DL, Nightingale RW, Robinette JJ, Vanguri SK, Coates DJ, Myers BS. Experimental flexibility measurements for the development of a computational head-neck model validated for near-vertex head impact. SAE Technical Papers. 1997 Jan 1;
• Nightingale RW, McElhaney JH, Camacho DL, Kleinberger M, Winkelstein BA, Myers BS. The dynamic responses of the cervical spine: Buckling, end conditions, and tolerance in compressive impacts. SAE Technical Papers. 1997 Jan 1;
• Nightingale RW, McElhaney JH, Camacho DL, Kleinberger M, Winkelstein BA, Myers BS. The dynamic responses of the cervical spine: Buckling, end conditions, and tolerance in compressive impacts. SAE Technical Papers. 1997;
• Best TM, McElhaney JE, Garrett WE, Myers BS. An optical system to determine axial surface strains in skeletal muscle. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Bioengineering Division (Publication) BED. 1996 Dec 1;33:229–30.
• Hughes MA, Myers BS, Schenkman ML. The role of strength in rising from a chair in the functionally impaired elderly. Journal of biomechanics. 1996 Dec;29(12):1509–13.
• Myers BS, Belmont PJ, Richardson WJ, Yu JR, Harper KD, Nightingale RW. The role of imaging and in situ biomechanical testing in assessing pedicle screw pull-out strength. Spine (Phila Pa 1976). 1996 Sep 1;21(17):1962–8.
• Nightingale RW, McElhaney JH, Richardson WJ, Best TM, Myers BS. Experimental impact injury to the cervical spine: relating motion of the head and the mechanism of injury. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 1996 Mar;78(3):412–21.
• Nightingale RW, McElhaney JH, Richardson WJ, Myers BS. Dynamic responses of the head and cervical spine to axial impact loading. J Biomech. 1996 Mar;29(3):307–18.
• Best TM, McElhaney JE, Garrett WE, Myers BS. AN OPTICAL SYSTEM TO DETERMINE AXIAL SURFACE STRAINS IN SKELETAL MUSCLE. In: ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Proceedings (IMECE). 1996. p. 229–30.
• Myers BS, Van Ee CA, Camacho DL, Woolley CT, Best TM. On the structural and material properties of mammalian skeletal muscle and its relevance to human cervical impact dynamics. Stapp Car Crash Conference Proceedings. 1995 Nov 1;(P-299):203–14.
• McElhaney JH, Hopper RH, Nightingale RW, Myers BS. Mechanisms of basilar skull fracture. J Neurotrauma. 1995 Aug;12(4):669–78.
• Best TM, McElhaney JH, Garrett WE, Myers BS. Axial strain measurements in skeletal muscle at various strain rates. Journal of biomechanical engineering. 1995 Aug;117(3):262–5.
• Fyda TM, Callaghan JJ, Fulghum CS, Seaber AV, Myers BS. A model of cortical window healing in the rabbit. Orthopedics. 1995 Feb;18(2):177–84.
• Myers BS, Hasty CC, Floberg DR, Hoffman RD, Leone BJ, Richardson WJ. Measurement of vertebral cortical integrity during pedicle exploration for intrapedicular fixation. Spine (Phila Pa 1976). 1995 Jan 15;20(2):144–8.
• Myers BS, Winkelstein BA. Epidemiology, classification, mechanism, and tolerance of human cervical spine injuries. Critical reviews in biomedical engineering. 1995 Jan;23(5–6):307–409.
• Myers BS, Van Ee CA, Camacho DLA, Woolley CT, Best TM. On the structural and material properties of mammalian skeletal muscle and its relevance to human cervical impact dynamics. SAE Technical Papers. 1995 Jan 1;
• Hopper RH, McElhaney JH, Myers BS. Mandibular and basilar skull fracture tolerance. Stapp Car Crash Conference Proceedings. 1994 Nov 1;(P-279):125–31.
• Myers BS, Arbogast KB, Lobaugh B, Harper KD, Richardson WJ, Drezner MK. Improved assessment of lumbar vertebral body strength using supine lateral dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry. J Bone Miner Res. 1994 May;9(5):687–93.
• Best TM, McElhaney J, Garrett WE, Myers BS. Characterization of the passive responses of live skeletal muscle using the quasi-linear theory of viscoelasticity. Journal of biomechanics. 1994 Apr;27(4):413–9.
• Hopper RH, McElhaney JH, Myers BS. Mandibular and Basilar skull fracture tolerance. SAE Technical Papers. 1994 Jan 1;
• Stranne SK, Callaghan JJ, Cocks FH, Weinerth JL, Seaber AV, Myers BS. Would revision arthroplasty be facilitated by extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy? An evaluation including whole bone strength in dogs. Clin Orthop Relat Res. 1993 Feb;(287):252–8.
• Kliewer MA, Gray L, Paver J, Richardson WD, Vogler JB, McElhaney JH, et al. Acute spinal ligament disruption: MR imaging with anatomic correlation. J Magn Reson Imaging. 1993;3(6):855–61.
• Callaghan JJ, Elder SH, Stranne SK, Fulghum CF, Seaber AV, Myers BS. Revision arthroplasty facilitated by ultrasonic tool cement removal. An evaluation of whole bone strength in a canine model. The Journal of arthroplasty. 1992 Dec;7(4):495–500.
• MYERS BS, BITTENBENDER K, LOBAUGH B, HARPER KD, DREZNER MK. LATERAL DUAL ENERGY X-RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY - AN IMPROVED METHOD TO ASSESS VERTEBRAL STRENGTH. JOURNAL OF BONE AND MINERAL RESEARCH. 1992 Aug 1;7:S117–S117.
• Myers BS, McElhaney JH, Nighingale RW, Doherty BJ. Quasi-linear modeling of the viscoelastic responses of the human cervical spine in torsion. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Bioengineering Division (Publication) BED. 1991 Dec 1;20:37–9.
• Nightingale RW, Doherty BJ, Myers BS, McElhaney JH, Richardson WJ. Influence of end condition on human cervical spine injury mechanisms. Proceedings - Society of Automotive Engineers. 1991 Dec 1;(P-251):391–9.
• Myers BS, McElhaney JH, Doherty BJ, Paver JG, Gray L. The role of torsion in cervical spine trauma. Spine (Phila Pa 1976). 1991 Aug;16(8):870–4.
• Myers BS, McElhaney JH, Doherty BJ. The viscoelastic responses of the human cervical spine in torsion: experimental limitations of quasi-linear theory, and a method for reducing these effects. Journal of biomechanics. 1991 Jan;24(9):811–7.
• Nightingale Roger W, Doherty Brian J, Myers Barry S, McElhaney James H, Richardson William J. Influence of end condition on human cervical spine injury mechanisms. Proceedings - Society of Automotive Engineers. 1991;(P-251):391–9.
• Nightingale RW, Doherty BJ, Myers BS, McElhaney JH, Richardson WJ. Influence of end condition on human cervical spine injury mechanisms. SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers) Transactions. 1991;100(Sect 6):2040–8.
• Myers BS, McElhaney JH, Nighingale RW, Doherty BJ. Experimental limitations of quasi-linear theory, and a method for reducing these effects. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Bioengineering Division (Publication) BED. 1990 Dec 1;20:139–42.
• Myers BS, McElhaney JH, Doherty BJ, Paver JG, Nightingale RW, Ladd TP, et al. Responses of the human cervical spine to torsion. SAE Technical Papers. 1989 Jan 1;
• McElhaney JH, Doherty BJ, Paver JG, Myers BS, Gray L. Combined bending and axial loading responses of the human cervical spine. SAE Technical Papers. 1988 Jan 1;

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