Skaters and CTE

[Sleezus Yikes]

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i see this misinformation on slap a lot, so i feel compelled to make a post for whoever bothers to read it.

wearing a helmet both reduces the chances of getting a concussion as well as reducing the severity of the concussion should one occur. full stop. yes even the lightweight, non-certified ones.

football always gets brought up. with football, players repeatedly and intentionally encounter blow after blow to the head, totally unlike skateboarding where we rarely hit our heads at all. also, the helmets and pads in football enable the kind of violent blows they regularly experience. they would not be able to use their bodies and heads as offensive weapons otherwise. i feel kind of stupid explaining how slamming heavy helmeted heads together on the reg is totally different than using a helmet to mitigate the occasional fall but here we are.

i'm not sure if i can really explain how wrong this goober's "no matter how small" shpiel is, but i assume the rest of you are wise enough to know that's BS, otherwise joggers' brains would all be mush. severity matters, otherwise patting your head a bunch of times could cause a TBI. yes you can injure your brain without direct contact. you typically see that sort of thing in a car accident or an explosive blast, not bouncing off your ass or jumping on a trampoline or whatever.

bottom line, you don't want to wear a helmet, then don't. stop trying to justify why with pseudoscience.

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This is more wrong and outdated information.. You will all see the truth about CTE over the incoming years as new studies have been underway. Please Don't trust a guy who thinks jumping on a trampoline is the equivalent as jogging as one is something we evolved to do over thousands of years, the other didn't even exist until the 1930s.

" you typically see that sort of thing in a car accident or an explosive blast, not bouncing off your ass or jumping on a trampoline or whatever. "

Yeah that's what everyone thought in the past when almost nothing was known about CTE and everyone was medically checked out after car crashes and explosive blasts, they weren't testing kids on trampolines though were they? Well they are now and the results will shock everyone in a few years.

Also to anyone reading this please be careful about people trying to push a certain agenda, this thread was about CTE so why did he bring up the helmets use for concussions? Well because helmets don't stop CTE, he had to move the goal post to concussions to fit his agenda.

Do i think you should wear a helmet? yeah BUT I also think you deserve know that it's not some magical invention that allows you to repeatedly hit your head without consequence. Anyone who speaks otherwise just wants to push their agenda, they don't care if you are actually hurting yourself while feeling protected.

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Never trust a guy who vaguely says ‘they’ or ‘agenda’  and claims to somehow know years ahead of what medical science has already discovered.

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People in the field will always be years ahead as even once something is known it takes years for the studies to be completed at the level it's required.

Just look at them. Smugly looking back at us living in the land of ignorance. You field types are all the same.