On Sunday, August 4, 2019 at 5:58:07 PM UTC-4, Frank Krygowski wrote:
On Sunday, August 4, 2019 at 11:30:27 AM UTC-4, Tom Kunich wrote:
On Friday, August 2, 2019 at 3:47:26 PM UTC-7, Frank Krygowski wrote:
On 8/2/2019 6:21 PM, Tom Kunich wrote:
I just got an advertisement from Trek in which they now claim that the latest Wavecell has not 28 times but 48 times the protection for your head than normal foam.

I wonder if this is advertising BS or an actual improvement of the cell shape design. Since they are manufactured using a 3-D printing technology it is very simple for them to make improvements to the design.

At 28 times the protection I wouldn't have had a concussion in the first place so it is actually something to think about. I am paying about $400 a month for medication and in a constant worry that I will grow used to the medication and its effectiveness will fail. I already discovered that if I take these Saw Palmetto pills for enlarged prostate that it makes you pass the medication out more rapidly that you're supposed to and I start having micro-seizures.

I can't take any larger doses so that is always a problem.

I absolutely do not believe that a helmet can save your life and we've discussed this many times before. But I do believe that it can make the life you wouldn't have lost more livable.

Perhaps, for certain values of "can."

Maybe we'll someday see if the Wavecell makes a difference. In that
case, perhaps they can sell it to those that actually has the largest
number of TBI injuries. That surely does not include bicyclists, despite
all the dishonest hype. Ask any honest ER doctor or TBI specialist.

In any case, it's pretty clear conventional bike helmets aren't working.
Cyclist concussions have soared since bike helmets became popular - just
the opposite of what was promised.


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- Frank Krygowski

Frank, please stop your invention. TBI has not "soared". In fact we have a smaller percentage of injuries and fatalities of bicyclists because they are more familiar to motorists these days and cycling becomes more common..

From "Senseless" in _Bicycling_ magazine, June 2013:

"Stat #3: As more people buckled on helmets, brain injuries also increased. Between 1997 and 2011 the number of bike-related concussions suffered annually by American riders Â*increased by 67 percent, from 9,327 to 15,546..."

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- Frank Krygowski

That article makes no sense at all the way it's posted!

Cheers