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Seeking new data to sway my choice to ride with a neck brace. Was starting to shop for new neck brace.. then this popped up in my feed.. every occurrence they discuss, I heard or seen video of the crashes. Man I'm on the fence again. I popped my collar bone with first gen of the Leatt landing on the side of my shoulder OTB so who know if it helped break it or not but my arm was tucked onto my side and not out like most people that break it. Their observations are noted, but again no one has come out with any new statistics if these clups of plastic help for 90% of the accidents. Your thoughts? Any new data sources? Pro's not wearing them feels so contradicting as well. Thanks!
Spinal trauma is one of if not the biggest problem in MX.
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Secondly its a really hard one as most of the information you'll find are just opinions, rather than hard facts based on research. I wore a 1st gen, i didnt find them that uncomfortable to be honest, When i get back into riding again i'll probably have an atlas on, that opinion is about as useful as BMayzee or Ryno or any other guy who tells you he wont.
Ryan Hughes opinion on them also doesnt really faze me, he comes across the same as a "do your own research" conspiracy theorist but then tell everyone that he's right anyways.
Please read for yourself: https://www.actionsportsems.com/case-study-neck-brace
https://www.vitalmx.com/forums/Moto-Related,20/10-Year-Neck-Brace-Study…?
A real study would randomly assign neck braces to people and see who got injured more. The data above is from who seeks medical assistance and can only tell you about the type of people who wear neck braces and seek medical attention at the track, not what neck braces do.
I know people who have died wearing seat belts- that doesn't mean they aren't effective.
Furthermore, this study does include people who did not wear neck braces. 8,529 relevant patients over 10 years. And "seeking medical attention" is not always the decision of the patient. If there is an injury the EMS crew responds regardless, including 5 deaths in the study.
This is the best data available. And while this study does not "assign" neck braces randomly (as seat belt studies do not either), the data gives a clear conclusion:
"9430 recorded accidents over nearly 10 years is a substantial sampling of real world data pertaining to neck braces, and in every instance above neck braces are an exponential improvement in rider safety."
The “study” above and its conclusions are flawed. And there are better ways to mitigate the risk of a spinal cord injury than the available neck braces.
Out of curiosity, what are the better way of mitigating an injury other than a neckbrace?
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What type of crashes typically cause the spinal cord injury you’re trying to protect against?
And what are the primary causal factors that lead to that type of crash?
I wear knee braces to “help” protect my knees
I wear boots to help protect my feet, yeah that’s a Cr 500 af in my sig pic
I wear a neck brace to help protect my neck!!
It’s simple you CHOOSE
So choose wisely, it is your neck after all
If anyone can enlighten me on the technical details of what a neck brace accomplishes to minimize the risk of fractures, that would be great.
Tanner Ward is testing the thing.
Personally, I don't wear one. Maybe they help, maybe they don't? I don't really want another foreign object strapped to my body that limits movement for a "maybe".
Just my choice, glad we all have the choice to make.
As for me, I wore a neck brace once - once. I have no doubt it would protect me somewhat in some crashes, but I also have no doubt that I'd crash more often because of it. No thanks.
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