Remember kids... always wear a helmet. (The almighty bikeradar helmet thread)

Why didn't she wear a helmet?

She could have DIE!

Someone I know put up a pic of his kid on a swing with a helmet on the other day, I'm not sure if they rode to a park or if it was a playground specific helmet. It was being worn over a Manchester United beanie so could have been to protect from unruly city kids I guess.

First thing A&E doctor asked before gluing me together was Were you wearing a helmet?

Concussion protocol - you have an injury on your head, and they need to need to ascertain the likelihood of brain injury.

Kids on scooters always seem to be wearing helmets too, these days.

I'm going to start suggesting that children in shopping trolleys should wear helmets.

Concussion protocol - you have an injury on your head, and they need to need to ascertain the likelihood of brain injury.

Really? Unless they actually instrumented your head with accelerometers during the accident, they have no way of refining their guess about the probability of concussion from knowing whether or not you were wearing a helmet.

s/need/want/

Who knows. I wasn't involved in writing the protocols.

I'm guessing that they take the presence of a helmet as a proxy for likelihood of injury in the event of a head injury. Maybe it's just a data point in their diagnosis. Maybe there's a differentiation in examination based on the presence of a helmet.

Versus actually having accelerometers.

And maybe lasers.

In fact, definitely lasers.

Tell the kids to wear the helmet all day, issue them with a letter to say "my kid is at risk of injury without this helmet as warned by our headteacher find attached photocopy". You won't even have left the school by the time they get into class and the teacher wants to put your kid at risk of brain injuries from classroom injuries, do you even know how many times a kid scrapes a knee in school(that could be avoided with a helmet?) statistically they get minor injuries lots.

I think sending them in with a helmet all day is the way forward, then campaign that all the other kids need to do the same. When I was at school some kid threw a rock up in the air and it landed on my head. Also when I was behind a mates house his brother threw a brick over a fence and it landed on my head, I could've cured AIDS or something if I'd have been wearing a helmet.

Maybe there's a differentiation in examination based on the presence of a helmet.

If there is, then all hope is lost, since even people who are supposed to be scientists have been fooled by the propaganda. Unless there's brain science I don't know about which points to very different treatment protocols based on the small statistical differences between helmet and no-helmet, i.e. helmet users tend to suffer slightly smaller linear accelerations, but no-helmet users tend to suffer smaller angular accelerations.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/french-campaigners-up-in-arms-over-plan-to-chop-down-napoleons-roadside-trees-10096613.html

These trees should have helmets and hi viz.

the teacher wants to put your kid at risk of brain injuries from classroom injuries

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=throwing+blackboard+rubber seems to bring up more nostalgia than contemporary accounts. What do teachers throw at pupils' heads now that the blackboard has been replaced by new technology with reduced ballistic potential?

Is current medical practice that evidence-based yet?

Notwithstanding that it is filtered through the practitioner themselves.

But maybe it's just a data point that they are capturing.

And time machines.

Friday, 6 July, 2001
France's 'killer trees' under threat

Deaths have apparently reduced since chopping down trees.

But they're also reduced in areas where there are no trees.

The only obvious inference is that trees on roads kill drivers not even on those roads.

These trees should have helmets and hi viz.

Either that or the French should stop driving pissed. Drink is implicated in about 29% of road fatalities in France, more than twice the rate in the UK, and their fatality rate is already about 50% higher than ours per vehicle-mile or per capita.

I can't check dates I was hit in the helmetless head as a child.

It's an up to date link you posted - it's just the same thing that happened 14 years ago.

Didn't even read it, just seemed vaguely apt when it popped up on Facebook. I care not for French trees when French cheese is so much better.

With the added benefit that you probably wouldn't die if you drove into a cheese.

Not from the impact, maybe heart disease would get me though.

Read it now, nice of them to chuck in a little bit of xenophobic lulz at the end.

@snottyotter how many times did you graze your knee as a child without a helmet on?

I rest my case.

I graze my knee all the time now without a helmet, I wear kneepads quite a lot though.

Concussion protocol

I doubt is was owt to do with that. That was covered by the shining of lights into eyes, asking about queasiness and other things that are actually relevant.

In more recent news I just sneezed and tore open my eyebrow wound. The doctor described the stuff they used to stick it together as 'basically superglue'. Would I be ok to fix it using actually superglue? I'm thinking it might sting, but I doubt copydex would hold it.