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1. I think every rider/ parent should listen to the whole interview, review the data on their website and make a informed decision.
2. To me its a no brainer to wear a neck brace, it takes the load that would be placed on your neck and spreads it out to other stronger parts of your body.
3. Dont listen to non medically trained riders talk about YOUR safety and your life/ paralysis.
4. I trust Dr. Leatt, he explained why he made the brace (friend killed riding due to broken neck). He dedicated his professional life to this and no short cuts were taken in design, testing, ect.
5. What else do you want a product to do before you use it? They tested it in labs, on cadavers, computer simulation, reviewed 10 years of EMS data with and without neck braces. And continue to study every time the brace breaks they try to evaluate where it broke (its designed to break at a certain point.
6. Personally I provide anesthesia for a career and work only in orthopedic surgery, to me it makes sense to wear one.
7. It doesnt seem like the brace causes collarbone injuries but even if it does that a easy fix, your neck is a ruined life.
If he wore it, ran their stickers, and dismissed everyone as crazy for doubting the product or wanting to see more research, sure, that logic plays out.
But he's actually pretty middle of the road and doesn't wear one, whilst providing a forum for both sides to promote their view and/or product.
While steve does have a vested interest in promoting braces he asked some hard questions and brought up some really hard points. One instance is he mentioned chad reed heard from a doctor a neck brace caused the death of a friend. It was only an anecdotal account however a very serious point to bring up.
Anyways my point is the interview wasnt some neck brace hand job interview, it hit on some very hard questions and provided some very good information.
I can't remember which brace he was wearing but it was relatively early days of it and he died at the scene due to head injuries.
https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/motorcyclist-killed-at-australian-mot…
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Most times, I start one, then start doing something else, wrenching, cooking, gardening, whatever... and totally stop listening.
I think they're good for people who spend long hours driving.
Even on the radio I generally don’t take endorsements to heart. I’ve never bought a product because someone has a commercial on it.
It’s not like before the Leatt multiple people a year were dying and now they aren’t. Dakar has always had deaths and always will. Did he mention any of the guys who HAVE died wearing it or was that conveniently left out?
I don’t necessarily think they harm people I’m just not convinced they help a whole hell of a lot either.
As someone who has followed Dakar for over 20 years I just don’t see a drastic drop in deaths since they started wearing neck braces. Like I said, always been a few deaths and still is, they weren’t ever “dropping like flies” so I don’t really see how the Leatt could have saved a ton of lives is all.
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