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Helmet keeps your head out of concussion
Date: 2014-08-21 Views: 951
The head is the most important part of a body, so it is very important to protect your head.
In various kinds of international cycling games, organizers never forget a security rule: participants must wear a helmet. It is said to be a mandatory in every game.
Whether you are a professional rider, a veteran or an entry level rider, cycling crash is unavoidable thing, a lot of veteran bicycle enthusiasts have crashing experience. There are causes of crash like, other riders on the road, or a big gap in a cross country game, all these can be the cause of a crash, especially for a new rider. When you have a crash, and you have some injuries on your body or skin trauma, it is easy to handle in time, but when you get hurt on your head, that would be way more difficult, or even fatal. Meanwhile, for those who always participate in cycling events, they enjoy the pleasure of cycling, if accidentally get injured in a game, the loss always outweighs the gain.
So before a riding, we need to understand the common injuries in riding. A cycling injury always start from your head. "Concussion" is familiar to every one, it is easy to encounter with "concussion" as a rider, especially for some riders do not wear a helmet in riding. "Concussion" refers to the head being punched with a outer force, instantly causing transient cerebral dysfunction, general clinical manifestations:
1. Consciousness problem: out of consciousness in a lesser extent time and is short, it can be as short as a few seconds or minutes, but no more than half an hour.
2. Short-term memory loss: can not recall the circumstances before the injury, but the things that pre-injury can clearly recall.
3. Other symptoms: frequent headaches, dizziness, nausea, anorexia, vomiting, tinnitus, insomnia, photophobia, inattention and other symptoms unresponsive.
4. Neurological examination no positive signs.
In various kinds of international cycling games, organizers never forget a security rule: participants must wear a helmet. It is said to be a mandatory in every game.
Whether you are a professional rider, a veteran or an entry level rider, cycling crash is unavoidable thing, a lot of veteran bicycle enthusiasts have crashing experience. There are causes of crash like, other riders on the road, or a big gap in a cross country game, all these can be the cause of a crash, especially for a new rider. When you have a crash, and you have some injuries on your body or skin trauma, it is easy to handle in time, but when you get hurt on your head, that would be way more difficult, or even fatal. Meanwhile, for those who always participate in cycling events, they enjoy the pleasure of cycling, if accidentally get injured in a game, the loss always outweighs the gain.
So before a riding, we need to understand the common injuries in riding. A cycling injury always start from your head. "Concussion" is familiar to every one, it is easy to encounter with "concussion" as a rider, especially for some riders do not wear a helmet in riding. "Concussion" refers to the head being punched with a outer force, instantly causing transient cerebral dysfunction, general clinical manifestations:
1. Consciousness problem: out of consciousness in a lesser extent time and is short, it can be as short as a few seconds or minutes, but no more than half an hour.
2. Short-term memory loss: can not recall the circumstances before the injury, but the things that pre-injury can clearly recall.
3. Other symptoms: frequent headaches, dizziness, nausea, anorexia, vomiting, tinnitus, insomnia, photophobia, inattention and other symptoms unresponsive.
4. Neurological examination no positive signs.
Although concussion is a lightest brain injury, most can be cured after treatment, but the most terrible thing happened more than a concussion is a severe head injury, these injuries might be fatal, so put on your helmet is very important when riding.
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