(Tom Kunich) wrote in message . com...
Tim McNamara wrote in message ...
"psycholist" writes:

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Furthermore, the claim is that the benefits of helmets do not seem to
cross over to adults.

Could this be because:

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One of my friends thought it was due to the adults more developed
"protect your head reflex".. and anecdotally I like it ..

I had two bike related concussions as a kid, as an adult
1 broken wrist
1 broken collar-bone
1 separated shoulder
(all at different times)
never even a scratch or bump on the head..

someone should do a study with a breakdown of the types of injury by
age...
and exclude trials/bmx/free-riders...