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Helmets - compulsory from next season?
 Poster: A snowHead
Poster: A snowHead

snowheads68 wrote:


Helmet usage up 8% to 84% yet head injuries only down 8.4 to 6.8 %. Not the huge difference the Schattenparkers and Warmduschers would have you believe.

Even one less head injury is a plus point IMO.

It should be a matter of personal choice
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 Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person

For the 17 seasons of interest, the prevalence of all injuries to the head decreased from 8.4 to 6.8 %; the prevalence of potentially serious head injuries (PSHI) declined from 4.2 to 3.0 %. The incidence of PSHI declined from 1 in 4200 days of activity to 1 in 11 000 days of activity; the incidence of any head injury declined from 1 in 8600 days of activity to 1 in 26 000 days of activity. Results of the study also stated that over this same time, the incidence of helmet usage increased from 8 to 84 %.

Unless I've misunderstood those statistics they seem to suggest:
Incidence of PSHI has declined by more than 60%.
Incidence of any head injury has declined by about the same amount.

The percentages given seem to be a bit meaningless - I assume they relate to head injuries as a percentage of all injuries. So, it looks like total number of injuries have reduced significantly and that head injuries have reduced a little faster still.
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