From Eric Budd:
Less than 1 percent of cyclists in Netherlands wear helmets they yet have one of lowest rates of head injury in the world.
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Reblogged this on DR. MARTHA ANDREA CASTRO NORIEGA, MD, UEBD, CMT and commented:
Happy Cycling Thursday: REBLOG #3
The sad reality is that cycling concussions come from a rotational concussion. It is not like the NFL or NHL where most concussions are linear where padding can soften sudden deceleration or acceleration.
In a rotational concussion you need a device to slow down the sudden rotational acceleration which a bike helmet will not do anything for.
The reason that they have such a low rate of head injury is because the whole idea that head injury is even a possibility when cycling is false. The notion was started in the late ’80s by the Bell Helmet company who commissioned a fraudulent study that was designed to scare people into buying their helmets.
Cycling is inherently safe. We should stop listening to propaganda.
A head injury is possible on a bike but the probability is very low and a helmet won’t help most of the time.
Right and it’s a very rare thing. And that’s how propaganda works. Programming people’s minds so that they interpret any event, even if it proves the opposite, to confirm the idea. This is why when someone has an anecdote about a friend who had some cycling crash and was wearing a helmet and it turned out okay that they attribute the good outcome to the helmet use and not attribute it to the fact that cycling is such a safe activity that a crash can happen and still not too much damage resulted.