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bicycle retailer has an interesting article about mountain bike injuries declining 56% over the last 14 years.
do you think better bikes and design mean less injury overall?
READ THE FULL ARTICLE ON BICYCLE RETAILER
here's a snippet about injury specifics:
According to the study, appearing in the February 2011 issue of the American Journal of Sports Medicine, the most frequent diagnoses were fractures (27 percent), soft tissue injuries (24 percent) and lacerations (21 percent), while the most commonly injured body parts were the upper extremities (27 percent), shoulder and clavicle (20 percent) and the lower extremities (20 percent). Falls (70 percent) or being thrown off the bike (14 percent) were the most common mechanisms of injury.
do you think better bikes and design mean less injury overall?
READ THE FULL ARTICLE ON BICYCLE RETAILER
here's a snippet about injury specifics:
According to the study, appearing in the February 2011 issue of the American Journal of Sports Medicine, the most frequent diagnoses were fractures (27 percent), soft tissue injuries (24 percent) and lacerations (21 percent), while the most commonly injured body parts were the upper extremities (27 percent), shoulder and clavicle (20 percent) and the lower extremities (20 percent). Falls (70 percent) or being thrown off the bike (14 percent) were the most common mechanisms of injury.
I mean THIS used to be something people would tell you was safe to go ride at high speeds down rough trails.
also everyone's realising that injury = downtime...
bearing that in mind..
I just busted my left collarbone in the weekend into 3 bits!!
Super hot day here (southern hemisphere, NZ) 35deg C...anyway chose to take off body armour...landed badly on jump...came off onto shoulder....
v.stupid
I guess it's mostly compositional: the higher the number or riders the more riders doing easier kind of riding. Where I am from, light e-biking/touring has grew tremendously. I also second the consideration of willful underreporting of how a injury happened (being there, done that).
I agree. Specifically, I'd expect the radical change in weight distribution further back, combined with much higher average suspension travel (vs. trail difficulty) and lower stand-over heights is helping to reduce OTBs amongst riding groups of all ability levels and reducing the frequency of injuries.
In terms of composition, I would bet that increased bike park traffic offsets (to a certain extent) the many new riders we've welcomed to the sport. Last year in Leogang after blowing up, Austrian red cross which cleaned me up confirmed I was case #17 of the day needing medical treatment on just a quiet mid-summer Tuesday.
The odds are not stacked in our favor regarding injuries (ex. broke my scaphoid mid-september), but I'll take that risk everyday vs. riding/training in the road. Hope to keep seeing improvements in safety technology, specifically helmets and protection jackets.
whoa
the original discussion in this thread is from 2011, but stats aside, still a relevant discussion.
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