Snow Reports
FAQ
Help!!
Log in to snowHeads to make it MUCH better!
Registration's totally free, of course, and makes snowHeads easier to use and to understand, gives better searching, filtering etc. as well as access to 'members only' forums, discounts and deals that U don't even know exist as a 'guest' user. (btw. 50,000+ snowHeads already know all this, making snowHeads the biggest, most active community of snow-heads in the UK, so you'll be in good company)..... When you register, you get our free weekly(-ish) snow report by email. It's rather good and not made up by tourist offices (or people that love the tourist office and want to marry it either)... We don't share your email address with anyone and we never send out any of those cheesy 'message from our partners' emails either. Anyway, snowHeads really is MUCH better when you're logged in - not least because you get to post your own messages complaining about things that annoy you like perhaps this banner which, incidentally, disappears when you log in :-)
Username:-
Password:
Remember me:
👁
durr, I forgot...
Or:
Register
(to be a proper snow-head, all official-like!)
Study suggests helmets do not increase neck injuries
snowHeads Forum Index
>>>
snowNews
Prev topic
::
Next topic
Poster:
A snowHead
Poster:
A snowHead
New research from Canada suggests that wearing a helmet does not increase the risk of neck injuries among skiers and snowboarders.
About 3,000 people with neck injuries were included in the study, of whom around a quarter were wearing a helmet at the time of their accident. When accounting for factors such as skill, terrain and weather conditions, the researchers found there seemed to be no evidence that the extra weight of a helmet increased the risk of neck injuries during skiing accidents. This held true even in young children, whose disproportionately large heads might make them more susceptible to neck injuries....The study analysed any neck injury (n = 2,986), isolated neck injuries requiring ambulance evacuation (n = 522), or a cervical spine fracture or dislocation (n = 318) and compared them with non-head, non-neck injuries (n = 97,408) to examine the relationship between helmet use and neck injury among skiers and snowboarders in Quebec using 10 years of ski patrol data.
See:
http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/kwq039v1
Citation: Hagel BE et al. Helmet Use and Risk of Neck Injury in Skiers and Snowboarders. American Journal of Epidemiology 2010; doi:10.1093/aje/kwq039
Obviously
A snowHead
isn't a real person
Obviously
A snowHead
isn't a real person
surely the study would have to include all the people who fell etc but didn't injure themselves. in order to have a control group
And if approx 1/4 of people with neck injuries were wearing helmets (over 10 years when helmet use was probably under 25%).............. let the pie-throwing begin!
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
no - it says that +/- 25% WERE wearing helmets...
interesting study.
Terms and conditions
Privacy Policy
FAQ
Poster: A snowHead
