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On Sat, 13 Jun 2009 09:44:18 -0700 (PDT), Jay Beattie
wrote: On Jun 13, 6:28*am, Tom Sherman °_° wrote: aka Carl Fogel wrote: http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_12573813 We can all agree that it's a nice photo of two volunteers helping a disabled child enjoy a hand-cranked tricycle. But *. . . The happy child couldn't fall and hit his head unless one of the two volunteers on either side decided to tip his tricycle over.[...] Maybe the child rides in motor vehicles, gardens, takes baths and participates in other high head injury risk activities. Or as stated above, maybe he has a seizure disorder? Or maybe there is a law in the state requiring all children under the age of 16 to wear a helmet, and they are following the law? Or maybe the organizers are required by their insurance companies to have participants wear helmets? Or maybe they are just super cautious because these kids are already so disabled that dropping them on their heads while doing a transfer would cause them great discomfort? -- Jay Beattie. Dear Jay, Sorry, no bicycle helmet laws in Colorado. And the two kids in the background are wearing helmets in the parking lot with no helpers around. But helmets are given away with bicycles, along with training wheels, in Colorado: http://www.denverpost.com/search/ci_12481734 Cheers, Carl Fogel |
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"Leo Lichtman" wrote: "Frank Krygowski" wrote: I recall once seeing a handicapped young man, accompanied by his father, wearing a helmet in a restaurant. But that was the only time I'd seen such a thing. I once had a student who suffered a grand mal seizure - a truly frightening experience for me - but he never wore a helmet at school, AFAIK. Perhaps the reason bike helmets are promoted so heavily is that people expect a great many seizures among bicyclists? ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Carl's post sounded very reasonable, but then I read what Peter S. wrote--his explanation is very reasonable, and seems well grounded. Your response sounds like a desperate, doctrinaire obfuscation. Has anyone ascertained that the child in question *has* a seizure disorder? That is only one of hundreds of possible reasons for this young person to be in a wheelchair or using a hand-cranked bike. Spina bifida, traumatic spinal injury, spinal meningioma, cerebral palsy, normal pressure hydrocephalus, inherited spinocerebellar ataxia, muscular dystrophy.... the list goes on and on. This thread has been filled with unverifiable speculation. The simplest and likeliest reason is that the organizers of the camp wished to limit liability risks and required helmet use as a result. Their insurance company may have required it. This lad wearing a helmet has got nothing to do with whether helmets provide any useful protection and everything to do with the *belief" that helmets "prevent 80% of head injuries." The problem, of course, is that the claim that helmets prevent head injuries in any meaningful way is yet to be proven. Until Bell discovered profits through fearmongering in the 1970s, bicycling was considered a safe, benign and even innocent activity. Now it is seen as millions of head injuries just waiting to happen unless your head is wrapped in a glorified beer cooler. Pathetic. As a comparison, hundreds of thousands of Danes without helmets riding in urban traffic every day: http://www.copenhagencyclechic.com/ without an epidemic of brain injuries. Maybe the Danes just have innately better balance than Americans. BTW, scroll down to the fourth photo in the 11 June entry. Now that's a way to market bicycling. |
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wrote in message ... On Sat, 13 Jun 2009 05:29:44 -0700 (PDT), "Peter S." wrote: On 13 Jun., 08:11, wrote: http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_12573813 We can all agree that it's a nice photo of two volunteers helping a disabled child enjoy a hand-cranked tricycle. But . . . The happy child couldn't fall and hit his head unless one of the two volunteers on either side decided to tip his tricycle over. Don't underestimate the power of an epileptic attack; they can snap bones if the seizure patient is restrained, tipping over a tricycle during a seizure can be done if the attack is severe enough. Lots of handicaps are associated with brain damage that again is associated with epilepsy. Epileptics really should avoid even minor brain concussions, and since seizures or spastic attacks comes without any warning, it is understandably that the organizers issued a "everybody must wear a helmet" order. According to the article, nine-year-old Bryce uses a wheelchair regularly and is good at fencing, so he's not likely to topple over while just riding around. That the kid on the picture may have more problems than merely non- functional legs seems underscored by the fact that the two helpers are tracking him so closely, while the kids in the background are cycling unattended. Also, notice the AFAIK huge black velcro strap across his belly (his t- shirt is green) and the chair. He is likely spastic, epileptic or have some other brain/nerve deficiency that makes that necessary. If a tricycle is so dangerous that the kid needs a helmet to ride one with two volunteers walking next to him and holding on, shouldn't the volunteers be wearing helmets, too? It doesn't look like a normal bicycle helmet he is wearing, but some kind of soft helmet like boxers uses for training. Some handicapped people wears such helmets all the time, perhaps for being autistic self-harmers or because they have balance problems perhaps combined with conditions that makes it very important that they don't even get minor head traumas. The kid in the picture is very likely in a special risk situation. Here is another wheelchair user, but with a full face helmet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc1YdL_w1Hg Dear Peter, Could be. But what about the other two helmeted kids in the background on tricycles? No helpers, but helmets in a parking lot. And what about these happy children in another recent Denver post article? http://www.denverpost.com/search/ci_12481734 There's no hint in the article that they're suffering from any problems whatsoever. They're just kids riding bicycles with training wheels and helmets. Cheers, Carl Fogel Carl, Are you saying that training wheels eliminate the possibility of falling over? Thanks, Kerry |
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On Sat, 13 Jun 2009 12:26:06 -0700, "Kerry Montgomery"
wrote: wrote in message .. . On Sat, 13 Jun 2009 05:29:44 -0700 (PDT), "Peter S." wrote: On 13 Jun., 08:11, wrote: http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_12573813 We can all agree that it's a nice photo of two volunteers helping a disabled child enjoy a hand-cranked tricycle. But . . . The happy child couldn't fall and hit his head unless one of the two volunteers on either side decided to tip his tricycle over. Don't underestimate the power of an epileptic attack; they can snap bones if the seizure patient is restrained, tipping over a tricycle during a seizure can be done if the attack is severe enough. Lots of handicaps are associated with brain damage that again is associated with epilepsy. Epileptics really should avoid even minor brain concussions, and since seizures or spastic attacks comes without any warning, it is understandably that the organizers issued a "everybody must wear a helmet" order. According to the article, nine-year-old Bryce uses a wheelchair regularly and is good at fencing, so he's not likely to topple over while just riding around. That the kid on the picture may have more problems than merely non- functional legs seems underscored by the fact that the two helpers are tracking him so closely, while the kids in the background are cycling unattended. Also, notice the AFAIK huge black velcro strap across his belly (his t- shirt is green) and the chair. He is likely spastic, epileptic or have some other brain/nerve deficiency that makes that necessary. If a tricycle is so dangerous that the kid needs a helmet to ride one with two volunteers walking next to him and holding on, shouldn't the volunteers be wearing helmets, too? It doesn't look like a normal bicycle helmet he is wearing, but some kind of soft helmet like boxers uses for training. Some handicapped people wears such helmets all the time, perhaps for being autistic self-harmers or because they have balance problems perhaps combined with conditions that makes it very important that they don't even get minor head traumas. The kid in the picture is very likely in a special risk situation. Here is another wheelchair user, but with a full face helmet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc1YdL_w1Hg Dear Peter, Could be. But what about the other two helmeted kids in the background on tricycles? No helpers, but helmets in a parking lot. And what about these happy children in another recent Denver post article? http://www.denverpost.com/search/ci_12481734 There's no hint in the article that they're suffering from any problems whatsoever. They're just kids riding bicycles with training wheels and helmets. Cheers, Carl Fogel Carl, Are you saying that training wheels eliminate the possibility of falling over? Thanks, Kerry Dear Kerry, Nope. In the same vein, I'm pretty sure that you're not saying that the kids should wear helmets while walking in case they fall over. :-) Cheers, Carl Fogel |
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On 13 Jun., 20:50, wrote:
But what about the other two helmeted kids in the background on tricycles? No helpers, but helmets in a parking lot. Their handicap is probably much smaller than the kid in the front, perhaps they merely vision impaired spastics that can't use their legs. Anyway, with any random group of handicapped kids, you will find that a lot of them will have severe balance problems, body coordination problems, brain disorders like epilepsy etc. It probably makes sense for a lot of the kids to wear helmets for extraordinary activities like that sport event. And what about these happy children in another recent Denver post article? http://www.denverpost.com/search/ci_12481734 There's no hint in the article that they're suffering from any problems whatsoever. They're just kids riding bicycles with training wheels and helmets. The training wheels are a shame. They don't learn to ride properly with those contraptions on. -- Regards |
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On 13 Jun., 21:25, Tim McNamara wrote:
As a comparison, hundreds of thousands of Danes without helmets riding in urban traffic every day: Helmet use in Denmark is sharply rising these years. Good thing too, since helmet use is proven to reduce head injuries and deaths (see TØI rapport 572/2002) Yeah, I know, helmets haters are in denial about this, so you will probably ignore this too, I don't care. http://www.copenhagencyclechic.com/ without an epidemic of brain injuries. Maybe the Danes just have innately better balance than Americans. BTW, scroll down to the fourth photo in the 11 June entry. Now that's a way to market bicycling. Even in a small country like Denmark, bicycle related head injuries are measured in their thousands. (6500 head traumas, of these, 1200 were considered serious; average numbers from 2000-2004 as reported from hospitals). I have no problem with people riding without helmet, but I severely dislike how helmet haters ignores simple facts that helmets do reduce head injuries and deaths among cyclists. I have this strong suspicion that helmet haters have this hidden agenda, that by claiming that helmets doesn't work, they can prevent mandatory helmet laws. This of course is a totally wrong political tactic. By outright denying simple facts, helmet haters marginalizes themselves as kooks. It is also a looser tactic to only have a negative message; the ordinary voter may very well support mandatory bicycle helmets because, if helmets works, then lives will be saved, and if helmets doesn't work, then no harm was done in making the helmets mandatory. In short, helmet haters are a political liability for us that opposes mandatory helmet laws. -- Regards |
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Peter S.??? wrote:
[...] I have no problem with people riding without helmet, but I severely dislike how helmet haters ignores simple facts that helmets do reduce head injuries and deaths among cyclists.[...] Those "facts" are highly disputable, and that has been discussed here until the deceased equine complained about the excessive flagellation. -- Tom Sherman - 42.435731,-83.985007 I am a vehicular cyclist. |
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On Sat, 13 Jun 2009 14:14:15 -0700 (PDT), "Peter S."
wrote: I severely dislike how helmet haters ignores simple facts that helmets do reduce head injuries and deaths among cyclists. I severely dislike how people how urge helmet use on bikes are so dismissive of the value of helmets in cars. |
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"Peter S." wrote in message
... On 13 Jun., 08:11, wrote: Don't underestimate the power of an epileptic attack; they can snap bones if the seizure patient is restrained, tipping over a tricycle during a seizure can be done if the attack is severe enough. Lots of handicaps are associated with brain damage that again is associated with epilepsy. Epileptics really should avoid even minor brain concussions, and since seizures or spastic attacks comes without any warning, it is understandably that the organizers issued a "everybody must wear a helmet" order. #1: If indeed this poor kid suffers from sudden uncontrollable and frequent epileptic attacks, or simply has severe motor or balance issues, the helmet is likely part of his normal routine, and has nothing to do with riding the trike. He's possibly more likely to injure himself on his feet than on the trike. #2: Epileptics play football, LaCrosse and many other hard-contact sports in which "even minor brain concussions" could certainly happen, and yet it's not seen as an issue. Please review this - http://www.epilepsy.com/info/teens_gen_sports before making any such claims. #3: Epileptic seizures are typically (for many, almost always) preceded by something called an "aura." It is not correct to say that seizures come "without any warning." It may not allow enough time to safely disengage from whatever one is doing, but there is often a warning. There are a huge number of people with epilepsy, and it's likely you know some and aren't aware of it. Most are fortunate to lead fairly normal lives, although unless their seizures have been completely under control for a given amount of time, you won't find them driving a car. --Mike Jacoubowsky Chain Reaction Bicycles www.ChainReaction.com Redwood City & Los Altos, CA USA "Peter S." wrote in message ... On 13 Jun., 08:11, wrote: http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_12573813 We can all agree that it's a nice photo of two volunteers helping a disabled child enjoy a hand-cranked tricycle. But . . . The happy child couldn't fall and hit his head unless one of the two volunteers on either side decided to tip his tricycle over. Don't underestimate the power of an epileptic attack; they can snap bones if the seizure patient is restrained, tipping over a tricycle during a seizure can be done if the attack is severe enough. Lots of handicaps are associated with brain damage that again is associated with epilepsy. Epileptics really should avoid even minor brain concussions, and since seizures or spastic attacks comes without any warning, it is understandably that the organizers issued a "everybody must wear a helmet" order. According to the article, nine-year-old Bryce uses a wheelchair regularly and is good at fencing, so he's not likely to topple over while just riding around. That the kid on the picture may have more problems than merely non- functional legs seems underscored by the fact that the two helpers are tracking him so closely, while the kids in the background are cycling unattended. Also, notice the AFAIK huge black velcro strap across his belly (his t- shirt is green) and the chair. He is likely spastic, epileptic or have some other brain/nerve deficiency that makes that necessary. If a tricycle is so dangerous that the kid needs a helmet to ride one with two volunteers walking next to him and holding on, shouldn't the volunteers be wearing helmets, too? It doesn't look like a normal bicycle helmet he is wearing, but some kind of soft helmet like boxers uses for training. Some handicapped people wears such helmets all the time, perhaps for being autistic self-harmers or because they have balance problems perhaps combined with conditions that makes it very important that they don't even get minor head traumas. The kid in the picture is very likely in a special risk situation. Here is another wheelchair user, but with a full face helmet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc1YdL_w1Hg -- Regards |
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