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Merry Christmas to you all and Godbless yall and all your families. I can’t wait for the day to post that he took his first unassisted steps. I just know it’s going to happen. Kids got that dog in him. We are just a small Moto/wrestling family and means the world how many of yall have reached out and put your busy life’s aside to send a small prayer out for Jake. Gonna load up the bike after a couple hours at work this morning and put some laps in for the first time for quite a few months as...

No bitching, no complaining, no why me’s. At the gym (ATF in Carrollton) by 7:30am, 45 minute drive from his place, 5 days a week. Goes to Baylor in downtown Dallas - PT twice a week, and another therapy gym on Fridays. Drives himself everywhere. Takes his wheelchair apart piece by piece from the drivers seat, and puts it in the passenger seat, then puts it all back together when he gets to where he’s going. Carrollton gym is closed for the holidays until 1/2 - owner told Jake - tell me what time you want to be here and...

I'm grateful for these updates. I dont know your brother, but my son and I ride at RV so this hits home. I have an acquaintance with an SCI. He is paralyzed from the waist down. He went to a place called https://veritaneuro.com/ in Mexico to get a spinal cord stimulator implanted. Cost him $100 grand. He said it has not been a magic cure-all, and it requires dedication, but he has recovered some movement in his legs. Not full movement or coordination, but improvement. He said that he met a quadriplegic that had this therapy and was really dedicated...

I'm trying to get my head around this: They are saying over the period, four people died and they didn't have a neck brace on, and one person died wearing a neck brace, so there is 69% increased chance of dying if you don't have a neck brace on? Is that the way statistics analysis works? There is no statistical or scientific expertise referenced in the article, so it's kind of hard to say. You really need some type of scientific expertise to do a scientific study. It's more accurate to say that over the sample period, 20% of people...

Unless I'm missing something, this should address most of the statistical concerns brought up in this thread. This breaks things down by what percentage of riders who were under their care suffered a spinal injury based on whether they were wearing a brace or not. The sample size between brace wearers and non-brace wearers is relatively close, so this probably provides the best synopsis out of the whole article. From the wording this was obviously done with a result in mind, but the bottom line is this bit of data here paints a clear picture.

Yes, I see you're point, and it's a fair one. What we need to do is put it in the context of what it is we want to know, which is: If I have a bad crash, am I more or less likely to suffer a severe neck injury wearing a neck brace. So what we see is a sample of riders who had exactly that kind of crash. As RichieW13 pointed out, this overrepresents riders who crashed and were injured, and underrepresents those who came away unscathed. There are plenty of unanswered questions about that group, as I readily...

This is all true, but where in the report do you gather a number of what percentage of riders (from any sample-size, but the larger the better) they presume ride with a neck brace, and in what way do they make use of that number in the conclusions they draw? This is an incredibly important number to have and a severe oversight in this report in my personal opinion, you are naturally free to convince me (and crusty_xx and whoever else who have brought this flaw up) otherwise. Edit (perhaps this should have been in another post entirely...): I understand...

Fair point. Though it's possible that the rate may not be similar. - If neck braces make it harder to turn your head, maybe it could lead to more frequent crashing. - Neck braces could make riders feel safer, and willing to take more chances. - Neck braces could make riders more conscious of crashing, and take less chances. - Maybe beginner-type riders are more likely to wear neck braces, and more likely to fall. Or, are beginners REALLY cautious and LESS likely to fall? There are many variables which could change the crash rate in either direction.

I am serious. You need a total number, you can not make a statistic without a total number or any relation to a total number. Or at least I don't know how to compensate that with "simple math"... That's like saying only 20 guys broke their back riding an electric bike. So electric bikes must be safer (ignoring the fact that only a low percentage of MX riders use electric bikes).

This is terrible statistical analysis. Problem #1: We have no data for riders that fell, but got up without reporting an injury. This would be the optimal outcome for wearing a neck brace, but this study does nothing to tell us whether the neck brace helps with that or not. Problem #2: The math. For item #1, they mention an 89% greater risk of cervical spine injury. Problem one, is the math is just wrong. 26 divided by 239 is 11%, so they are saying 89% more likely. But that's not how you calculate a liklihood. Instead, what they are...

I don't think you understand their point. If you have no data regarding what percentage of riders wear a neck brace to begin with, you can not in any way extrapolate any meaningful numbers from a study like this one. If there are 90000 active riders without a neck brace, 10000 with one, and if you have a sample of 1000 collar-bone injuries; then you would expect to see 900 injured without a neck brace and 100 with one (if the assumption is that the brace neither causes nor prevents such injuries). If the numbers in that case would deviate...

Yea so what do the results look like if the number of riders using one and not using one are equal. Thats the results which will show if it is much safer or not.

One more thing that was my took into account, is how many % wear neck braces. Here I'd say it's 80% don't And 20 % do so there is going to be a higher avg of people falling off without them

These numbers mean nothing if not put in relation of how many people wear a brace compared to the ones that don't wear a brace... 1000 times more people get hurt with a car compared to a jetpack. So jetpacks are safer now?

Website says they're selling merch and asking for donations. No mention of selling the bikes or gear. Regardless, even if they raise just a few thousand bucks thatll help a few families. They're also reminding people that PR STILL needs help from the hurricane. I call it a win win. I just hope ronnie mac shows up serious and not on a ragged out cr with cut up fenders doing air boners every other jump.