Mountain Bike Concussions Explained
Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast
Singletracks.com
4.7 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2017
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
With concern about concussions and traumatic brain injuries growing in sports like football, we explore how the bike industry is poised to deal with this serious issue. We start our conversation by explaining what concussions are and how they are caused. Then, we talk about how bike helmet designs seek to address the risk of concussions, and what this risk could mean to the future growth of mountain biking. Read the full transcript at Singletracks.com
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| 0:20.1 | Hey everybody, welcome to the single tracks podcast. |
| 0:23.0 | My name is Jeff, and today Greg and I are going to be talking about head injuries among mountain bikers. |
| 0:29.8 | This is a pretty serious subject, but one that we think we can share some good information about. |
| 0:35.9 | But we have to say at the very beginning here that we are not |
| 0:39.1 | doctors, obviously. We are mountain bikers. And so as such, we're not giving any kind of medical |
| 0:45.2 | advice or treatment advice or anything like that. So just take what we have to say as information |
| 0:52.6 | only. And again, this is information that we have gathered |
| 0:56.6 | sort of in our research and experience. So we're going to be talking specifically today about |
| 1:01.8 | concussions and traumatic brain injuries, what the symptoms and signs are, what some of the causes |
| 1:08.2 | are, and then the things that are being done to prevent or treat |
| 1:12.8 | those injuries. We did a similar podcast episode about helmets where we dived into some of this, |
| 1:19.9 | but this is going to be a more detailed discussion. So let's get started. So to start off, |
| 1:25.9 | Greg, what is a traumatic brain injury or TBI? |
| 1:29.9 | Basically, TBIs cover all sorts of impacts and injuries to the brain. It can be minor up to very serious. |
| 1:37.9 | So according to Wikipedia, TBI can result in physical, cognitive, social, emotional, and behavioral symptoms. And, you know, |
| 1:46.6 | you can either recover completely or it could lead to permanent disability or death. So TBI is a pretty |
| 1:52.7 | broad term. Yeah, definitely. And it's a term we're hearing in the media these days as well, |
| 1:59.2 | especially as it relates to football players. And there's been a lot of |
| 2:04.5 | research and there have been cases of people who are injured who have exhibited a lot of these |
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