Football helmets vs bicycle helmets...
what's the difference?

Below is a media release issued on March 8 2000 in which internationally recognised neurologist Dr Paul McCrory warns that football helmets are not only useless, but might actually lead to more severe injury.

His findings concerning increased risk compensation from football helmets leading to worse injury are in line with studies suggesting the same result for bicycle helmets.

In its 1994 inquiry on head and neck injuries to footballers, Australia's National Health and Medical Research Council examined evidence for the efficacy of bicycle helmets. It concluded that helmets may possibly reduce soft tissue injury, but "the use of helmets increases the size and mass of the head. This may result in an increase in brain injury."

Click here for the full analysis explaining how mandatory bicycle helmet legislation is harming the democratic civil rights, safety and public health of the community in Western Australia.


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