Exactly Tim. Those findings in Minnesota jive with the stats I posted above. Biggest players in traumatic brain injuries, or TBIs as they're called, seem to be motor vehicles and firearms. Seems there is no shortage of stuff we can make laws about if we want to reduce the incidence of head trauma. Guess I'll have to wait to become a habitual offender.
On Tuesday, October 2, 2012 2:46:54 PM UTC-4, Tim McNamara wrote: > > > > On Oct 2, 2012, at 12:03 PM, David Yu Greenblatt > <david.yu....@gmail.com<javascript:>> > wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 7:28 AM, Steve Palincsar <pali...@his.com<javascript:> > > wrote: > >> On Mon, 2012-10-01 at 07:53 -0600, PATRICK MOORE wrote: >> >> > One doesn't spend much time worrying about head protection while >> > walking. >> >> Falls while walking seldom involve a head injury. >> >> > > I think Steve makes a good point here. It would be silly to wear a helmet > while walking or running because something very odd would have to happen > for a healthy alert person to sustain a head injury while engaging in those > activities. > > > Perhaps it would seem that way but the facts are otherwise. The Minnesota > Department of Health report a few years ago found that pedestrian brain > injuries far exceeded bike related brain injuries. So did brain injuries > from motor vehicle accidents, falls at home, assaults, gunshot wounds, > suicide attempts, strokes and heart attacks, etc. Interestingly there were > fewer brain injuries for cyclists riding on the streets than riding on bike > paths and trails. > > Bicycling is safe. The general perception of bicycling now is that it is > a brain injury waiting to happen. I am old enough to well remember when > that public perception changed: when plastic bike helmets hit the market > ca. 1975. Bicycling! Magazine led the charge. It's a great example of a > meme. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rbw-owners-bunch/-/ypID4qQDJi0J. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
