Sat, Jun. 28, 2008

Vietnam shows effect of motorcycle helmets
Injuries dropped up to 30% after their use became mandatory.

http://www.philly.com/philly/hp/news...e_helmets.html

The issue here is bicycle helmets. They aren't constructed anywhere nearly as well as motorcycle helmets and can't withstand the same impacts, or even close. If I were going to try to protect my head, if I felt I really needed to, I'd wear a motorcycle helmet.
***NEWSFLASH!! We just went all the way down Delaware Ave to Target and back, and it was DARK coming home, and WE WEREN'T EVEN HURT!! OMG!!
But, I was wearing my lucky "chucks." Almost as good as a helmet, apparently.

On another note, let's have a "show of hands," how many of you never leave the house without sunscreen? There's a HIGH probability of doing enough damage to one's skin from not wearing daily sunscreen, yet most people never do. I always DO, and yet, I have to have a "biopsy" done on a spot on my face that's suspicious.

How many of you helmet wearers smoke?

How many of you are overweight, thereby putting your bodies at a much greater risk for diabetes, which has practically become an epidemic, and heart disease, among other problems?

How many of you woman had children without first looking into how many risks and deaths childbirth causes?

And, how many of you spend this much energy trying to convince other people to worry/care about any of the things mentioned above?

Have any of you spend this much time on those things? Because then, you must all be a bunch of squeaky clean, disease, disorder free, healthy specimens, huh!?

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I smoke and dont wear a helmet! Ill live forever though! Just wear biker gloves to put in front of you before your head hits the pavement. Be careful out there!

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I had a middle-aged, non-risking-taking relative who was involved in a bike accident in which the helmet was the ONLY thing that saved him from death or permanent severe brain damage. Nuff said.

i have a very hard head, but i ALWAYS wear my helmet.

1)
I wonder if we can find out if any/all of them were wearing helmets?

2) I just got back from a bike ride down Pennypack Park. This was my first time down Pennypack in a couple of years. I wore a helmet today for the first time. At 43, I don't have the reflexes of a 12 year old anymore. I also have more smarts to protect (even if I don't, it pleases me to believe that).

I didn't feel as dorky as I imagined I would. It felt like wearing a baseball cap (and as heat trapping and sweat producing). All of the other middle aged bike riders were wearing helmets too. Even without the middle-aged peer acceptance , I will be wearing the helmet from now on. For me, the risks of not wearing it greatly outweigh any benefits.

3) When I was a member of a gym, one of the other members was a really nice guy who was paralyzed from the waist down. We would usually be at the weights at the same time each week. Eventually the trainer working with him asked how he wound up in the chair. It was a bike accident involving a car.

Do we know if a helmet would help protect against spinal injury?

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As a matter of fact, I do. That's an EASY one. A SPINAL injury like that has NOTHING to do with a HEAD INJURY. It would have to have been a neck injury or possibly a back injury. Usually, to be paralyzed like that, it's an injury in the cervical spine. AT ANY RATE, THAT RETARDED HELMET WOULD NOT HAVE DONE A THING.

You know what? Last night, in the dark, on Delaware Ave., a guy on a bike PASSED me in the bike lane because, apparently, I was going too slow. In order to do that, he actually went out INTO TRAFFIC, (on a Saturday night,) and I saw him weaving in and out of it to go around a parked car. He had NO lights, on the bike, either...but he WAS wearing a helmet. I bet that when his bad cycling habits get him in an accident, (if he survives,) he and his friends will say, "Oh, the helmet surely saved him." ...Instead of....the douche was asking for the accident.

WOW. This getting ridiculous. Justify it any way you want, but the facts don't support any of your "the helmet probably saved my life," "if he/she had been wearing a helmet, he/she would probably had lived/been less injured."

I think most of you might be trying to hard to justify why you wear helmets after being given facts that tell you they won't help much. You don't like feeling "silly" for having done so all this time, I guess? Who knows.
Get over it and go buy some sunscreen, okay?

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http://www.mvprolapse.com/dysautonomia.html
http://www.ndrf.org/
http://www.sjogrens.org/syndrome/

http://www.bethbrennan.blogspot.com/
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?...63&ref=profile
http://www.myspace.com/o1o1o1o1

I started wearing bike helmets maybe 18 years ago. At this point, people *without* helmets look like dorks to me.

__Jason

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Let me get this straight... You are trying to extrapolate that not wearing a bike helmet contributed to someone's waist- down paralysis?? Did you inquire if he had any head trauma or was wearing a helmet? You have obviously disregarded the scientific and biomedical information here and chose to cling to the unsupported belief that this "magic helmet" will (or would have) saved me because of pseudo-science, marketing ploys, and near-identical TESTIMONIALS from others.