Importance of Bicycle Safty Helmets
Title: Importance of Bicycle Safty Helmets
Category: /Recreation & Sports
Details: Words: 2318 | Pages: 8 (approximately 235 words/page)
Importance of Bicycle Safty Helmets
Category: /Recreation & Sports
Details: Words: 2318 | Pages: 8 (approximately 235 words/page)
As a mode of transportation, the bicycle is a remarkably simple and satisfying machine. In fact, bicycling is so addictively pleasant that it is synonymous with fun, exercise, and good times. However, head injuries on a bicycle are not fun. It is very serious, and the challenge to an individual to find his way again is enormous. There was a man who was thirty-eight years old when his bicycle was hit by a pickup truck
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recommended that effective interventions (e.g., legislation making helmet use mandatory; school-based educational programs; community-based interventions) designed to increase bicycle helmet use be implemented. Wearing an approved helmet in the proper manner (taut chin strap, helmet shifted forward on the head, proper-fitting helmet) is the most effective way one can prevent serious head injury or death from a bicycle incident. Even a modest increase in helmet use rates can prove beneficial in reducing these rates.