Disadvantages Of Helmet

the helmet covers your whole face and head in order to protect you face from getting kicked in the face after getting bucked off. wearing a helmet is required if you are under 19 years of age. i feel that the helmet should be required for all ages.( in bull-riding you try to stay on a wild, 2,000 pound bull, some with horns the size of my arm. These bulls have tight straps around there butt to make them kick and jump harder. And all you have to hold on to is a single rope. if you fall of, the bull can stomp, trample, or horn you, and you could break bones from the fall (bull riding, 2015). So in the case of safety i feel that helmets should be required for all ages and at all

In 2015 28% of injuries occurred to the head or face, including concussions. High school injuries are so high because most people are just learning and don’t understand the right way to tackle so they lead with their head. High school athletes account for an estimated 2 million injuries and 500,000 doctor visits and 30,000 hospitalizations each year (Mills 2016).What Highschool started to use was the ZERO1 helmet. It has four core layers. The layers are (outside-In) Lode shell, Core layer, Arch shell, and form linear. The hard shell is the most important because it allows the helmet to not collapse when the player hits the ground (“The Safest Helmet in Football Is Set to Make Its NFL Debut"). The helmet stays straight, and the padding gives the player cushion when tackled.

One of the things I would like to address is that I think when It comes down to it helmets do help the impact lessen by having cushion to protect shock waves from traveling and causing more damage. The impact that causes a concussion has to be pretty hard it isn't something that can happen lightly it has to be a pretty hard hit,

Researchers made a mouth guard which decreases injuries around your face. Helmets are designed to prevent head injuries, such as concussions, skull fractures and brain injuries. Helmets have been proved to reduce the risk of head injuries. Helmets and mouth guard are designed to decrease the likelihood of head injuries from a direct impact to the head by scattering and dispensing the energy of impact

Have you ever had a concussion. Were you wearing a helmet. Well even though helmets cannot prevent every concussion but they definitely lower the number of concussions every year. Helmets save lives said Dr. Nav Persaud a doctor at a family center in toronto. There are about 70 cycling deaths per year with helmets we could lower that by 28.5 %every year. In some places around the world it is illegal to not wear a helmet if you are below the age of 18 which proves that helmets can prove concussions.

One issue that is a major part of concussion prevention is how the equipment is actually being processed and the tests done on the equipment to be able to show level of protection that can be provided, such as helmet strength and padding. For many decades, the standards for helmet protection was focused more so on preventing injuries, such as fractured skulls, than it was on concussion preventions. The National Operating Committee on Standards for Athletic Equipment (NOCSAE) has recently revised its standards for helmet protection. NOCSAE does not make or produce helmets but rather creates and sets the testing standard for the helmet; standard tests include the “drop test” where a weight is dropped onto the helmet from certain heights to test how well the helmet reduces the linear force. Other tests that have recently been added include testing the rotational force a helmet can bare and also helps to simulate any angle that a force may come from, just like a hit during a football game. This is also “…another step forward because rotational forces

To evade a serious concussion players can have more padding inside their helmets to prevent it. “Banning crown-of-the-helmet blows in the open field is not a loss to the game, it’s a common-sense move to protect the head and lower the amount of punishment it absorbs.” This is just one example of how the helmet protects the person wearing it. With more padding in the inside is giving the player a bit more secureness when having helmet to helmet contact.

Looking into more research about this topic, I found a TED Talk video hosted by “David Camarillo” called, “Why Helmets Don’t Prevent Concussions and What Might”. David studied the

Helmet laws throughout the U.S. have always created a great deal of controversy. Currently there are two types of helmet laws in the United States; a universal helmet law, which requires all motorcyclists to wear a helmet and partial helmet law that has age requirements. The helmet debate has been a long battle between free-rights organizations and government officials.

1. Motorcycle helmet laws save lives: Death rates from head injuries, such as traumatic, are twice as high among motorcyclists in states without all-rider helmet laws. And motorcycle helmets are 37 percent effective in preventing motorcyclist deaths and 67 percent effective in preventing brain

There has been extraordinary improvements of helmets from the old leather to the modernized-plastic football helmets along with the face mask and energy- absorbent padding. In addition, the concern over preventing concussions, have led to helmet changes, impact testing methods and reconstruction of injuries during play helping to provide insight on concussions(4). Helmets have been successful in decreasing the risk of traumatic brain injuries, but there is much concern over concussion; therefore, scholars argue the importance of technology development to address concussion(5). As the author(s), David Viano and David Halstead discusses, there is room needed for understanding the types of collisions associated in youths and the impact condition addressing collisions. There are many variables to consider addressing concussion and where they occur.

American football has been around for over one hundred years, and along with the sport has been the need to provide proper safety for the players. An assortment of padding has been instituted in the game that protects against most blunt trauma including blows to the shoulders, mid section, and legs. In an attempt to prevent fracture of the skull, helmets were designed. However, studies have shown that helmets do little to nothing to prevent concussive damage to the brain. A polycarbonate shell is used as the outer housing for regulation football helmets, but along with this material, the materials used on the inside of the helmet are just as, if not more, important. The purpose of this report is to analyze the materials used in current football helmet design and the improvements being made in the field of materials science in order to combat the severe number of concussions suffered by NFL players.

Many people think that to wear a helmet should a personal desition and should be not mandatory. After all, if harm is cause for not wearing a helmet, it will be a personal harm and no a general harm for society, “People have the right to chose their own poison” (Rosenstand, 255).

While some may argue that motorcycle helmets take away their freedom on the road and oppose their constitutional rights; helmets should be required to be worn by all motorcycle riders because they prevent skull, brain, and spinal cord injuries. Helmets prevent wind and debris from getting in the driver’s eyes, and its costs tax payers less money to treat helmets wearers than non-helmet wearers.

Legal factors: Legislation enforces all the motorcycle riders to wear a helmet when on a motorcycle and if found without one, fines are applied. Financial incentives for the states were repealed by the Congress wherever universal helmet laws were not enforced. Licensing of motorcycles is required to be done again in the city even if it had been done once in the suburbs. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is responsible for regulation of automobile and motorcycle emissions.