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  • Blog Post: 'Brain Buckets' - A Climber's Best Friend?

    I am dating myself, but when I started rock climbing, almost everyone wore helmets. It was as essential a piece of gear as your harness and shoes. But in the decades that followed, helmets became passe. Part of that change had to do with climbing styles and style (fashion) in climbing. Some comes from...
    onMon, Feb 13 2012

  • File: Snow-sport Helmets: injury prevention, rate of weavers and recommendations

    This report, published by the Swiss Centre for Accident Prevention, focuses on European research into the use of helmets in snow sports as a method of reducing injury severity. Summary: Despite the positive aspects of snow-sport, the risk of suffering an injury also exists. An extrapolation based on...
    onSun, Feb 12 2012

  • Blog Post: New Study Finds Helmet Use in Children Reduces Skull Fractures in Skiing/Boarding

    The helmet debate in winter sports has raged on for a long time with some people claiming that wearing a helmet increases accidents because people feel safer with a helmet and therefore ski faster, what's often referred to as risk homeostasis. While there is some data from other industries that suggest...
    onMon, Feb 21 2011

  • Blog Post: Helmets for Active Sports

    by Paul Auerbach, M.D. reposted with permission from the Medicine for the Outdoors Blog The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reported an analysis of motorcycle helmet use in fatal crashes. What was discovered is not surprising - namely, that in states in which there is not a state helmet...
    onSun, Dec 6 2009
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