How do crash helmets reduce injuries?

Answer 1

A football helmet reduces injury in quite some ways.

1: They reduce the ability to crack your skull.

2: They reduce the ability to cause brain damage of any kind.

3: The facemask keeps you from busting your lip, loosening/cracking/chipping teeth,and breaking your nose or causing any other sort of nose injuries.

4:They also reduce the ability to break/fracture your jaw.

Back Then

Back then, when football was just invented, it is said that players wore thin leather helmets with no facemask. There were alot more facial injuries than there are today

TODAY NOW

People have made new helmets with strenthened plastic under coated with soft material to keep you head in line. There are still head injuries or injuries on the face like: Broken Jaw(from about 5 to 12 weeks depending on how many places were broken or how hard the impact was),mild concussion(some memory loss,head aches.from about 2 to 6 weeks),and severe concussion(lots of memory loss, many head aches.(from about 6 to 13 weeks or possibly more). But football helmets reduce injury in many,many ways

Answer 2

A helmet protects your head when you fall, for example: If you fall off of your bike onto your head it can cause stitches or a serious head injury like TBI. If you wear your helmet, your head will be protected against serious injuries.

Answer 3

If someone drops a piece of metal on your head, or if you dive off a motorbike, you could injure your head. A helmet has a hard outside and a cushioned inside, so it protects your head. Do you want to know about materials and the Safety Standards Office?

Answer 4

Crash helmets reduce injuries by absorbing most of the impact shock. An easy to understand example is how an egg carton made of foam keeps the fragile egg from cracking by taking all of the knocks and bangs that would've cracked the egg. Your head is like the egg, and the crash helmet absorbs the shock of getting hit like the carton.

Answer 5

Helmets are use for protection. If you are fond of racing or biking, wearing a helmet is a requirement. Do not go into biking without it. It may lead you suffer from serious injuries if accidents happen.

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Answer 6

"Bicycle helmets protect the head and brain during a bicycling accident. Helmets will also secure the neck during a collision, and helmets have been found to be more effective at preventing injury than no protection at all."

Answer 7

Wearing a helmet protects your body by if your head falls on the concrete and your brain tells your body to react to these sudden happenings.

Answer 8

they prevent brain injury and they prevent you from getting a cracked skull if you wreck

Answer 9

so ur head doesnt get destroyed