January 26, 2011
Perhaps a lifetime of health problems. Perhaps early dementia. If the headache is related to a sports concussion…
When I was a child, we didn’t wear helmets to ride our bikes. My kids didn’t wear helmets to ride bikes or to skateboard. We were lucky. They were lucky. Really.
I remember falling off my bike. Plenty of times. We raced and crashed and burned. Perhaps the scariest crash riding a bike without a helmet happened when my daughter way old enough to sit up in the child carrier on the back of my bike, I was riding with her on a bike trail, and some crazy person pushed us off the trail and we–crashed. I was able to keep her upright by sheer will as we went flying and I lunged around backwards to grab the bike that I was no longer sitting on. The deep bruise on that leg and knee that went down is still memorable…it lasted for months.
It’s important that we are talking about athletics and concussions. http://www.heraldextra.com/news/opinion/editorial/around-the-nation/article_a952962f-591c-53c2-9ad6-64bf42b5ebfc.html It is important that parents wear helmets when they ride bikes and get helmets for their kids. And if there is an accident, get a new helmet…it is designed for a one time use. And let’s keep talking about it, so that we are less to have concussions that go unreported and untreated…
