Injury of sonic weapons to human body: A narrative review

Abstract

Sonic weapons are non-lethal weapons that some countries around the world are actively developing and equipping in their troop. Its injury to the human body is increasingly valued. Given that previous research on the injury, prevention, and treatment of sonic weapons to the human body has not been systematic and comprehensive, after explaining certain acoustic concepts, these authors introduce infrasonic and intense sound weapons from aspects of weapon types and applications, injury mechanisms and characteristics, injury thresholds, biological effects, injury diagnosis, and injury prevention and treatment. Finally, ultrasonic weapons are briefly introduced, based on a small amount of public literature reports both domestically and internationally. The aim is to provide a reference for future prevention, and treatment of sonic weapons injury.

Keywords: Infrasonic weapon; Intense sound weapon; Prevention and treatment; Sonic weapon; Ultrasonic weapon.