Who is posting this garbage?  Don't let stupid people kill your kids.  Watch out for extremists or mercenaries or provocateurs on Facebook that are just trying to create animosity and discontentment.  

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Brain injury is the most serious injury risk, with 26,000 children seen in emergency rooms each year for a traumatic brain injury related to bicycle riding [USA].  Bike helmets reduce the risk of head injury by at least 45%, brain injury by 33%, facial injury by 27% and fatal injury by 29%.  ~ Johns Hopkins University. 

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In recent years, 76% of the pediatric patients who were hospitalized at Mayo Clinic because of a bicycle-related traumatic injury were not wearing a helmet at the time of the crash,” says Lombard. “Wearing helmets can decrease the chances of sustaining a serious head injury in a bike crash by as much as 80 percent. ~ Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research.

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A study in The New England Journal of Medicine found that helmeted riders in the group they studied had an 85 percent reduction in their risk of head injury during a crash.

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Cyclists sustain more head injuries than football players. According to the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, cycling played a role in about 86,000 of the 447,000 sports-related head injuries treated in emergency rooms in 2009. Football, on the other hand, accounted for 47,000 of those head injuries, and baseball, 38,394.

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A February 2017 analysis in the International Journal of Epidemiology reviewed 40 separate studies and found helmet use significantly reduced the odds of head injury. They also found the odds of a fatal head injury to be lower when cyclists wore a helmet.

According to Stanford bicycle program coordinator Ariadne Scott, Stanford trauma surgeons note that 98 percent of people who suffer head injuries from bike crashes were not wearing a helmet.  ~ Stanford

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This review included five well conducted case‐control studies and found that helmets provide a 63–88% reduction in the risk of head, brain and severe brain injury for all ages of bicyclists. Helmets were found to provide equal levels of protection for crashes involving motor vehicles (69%) and crashes from all other causes (68%). Furthermore, injuries to the upper and mid facial areas were found to be reduced by 65%, although helmets did not prevent lower facial injuries.  ~  Ivers R. Systematic reviews of bicycle helmet research. Inj Prev. 2007 Jun;13(3):190. doi: 10.1136/ip.2007.015966. PMID: 17567976; PMCID: PMC2598379. 

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This study has some limitations, but the results strongly suggest that Traumatic Brain Injury in adult cyclists could be reduced if cyclists in the Netherlands would wear a helmet more often.

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Bicycle Helmets and Bicycle-Related Traumatic Brain Injury in the Netherlands

Crispijn L. van den Brand, Lennard B. Karger, Susanne T.M. Nijman, Huib Valkenberg, and Korné Jellema

Published Online:17 Nov 2020 h doi org/10 1089/neur.2020.0010

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Every year, some 50,000 are seriously injured in an accident and in around one-third of cases the victim suffers a brain injury, the doctors say. However, wearing a helmet cuts the risk of serious head injury by 60% and a deadly brain injury by 71%.

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‘We aim to cut the number of cycling accident victims considerably in the coming years,’ said neurologist Myrthe Boss. ‘If that target is not reached, policy makers should seriously consider making it compulsory.’

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Figures from national statistics agency CBS earlier this year showed that 229 cyclists died in accidents last year, the highest figure in 25 years. One in three was riding an electric bike.

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Neurologists launch campaign to encourage bike helmets and slash brain injuries

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HealthSociety October 5, 2021

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A group of neurologists and trauma surgeons drawn from some of the leading hospitals in the Netherlands are calling on people to wear helmets while cycling, saying it will lead to a reduction in deaths resulting from brain injuries.

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United under the banner Arsten voor Veilig Fietsen (link is external) (Doctors for Safe Cycling), the medics claim that of the approximately 50,000 cyclists who sustain serious injuries each year in the Netherlands, around one in three suffer a brain injury.

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by SIMON_MACMICHAEL TUE, OCT 05, 2021 17:00

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