Re: RC: Re: helmets

["Nancy Mitts" <mitts_n@hotmail.com>]

Well, the force of impact has to be dissipated somewhere. (A mechanical 
engineer could probably explian this.)In her case, by the skull fracture. In 
some (probably most) cases such impact would be absorbed by the helmet with 
no other problems. In some cases the amount of impact is so great the helmet 
doesn't absorb it all and it transfers to the spinal column & the neck 
breaks.
I'll continue to wear a helmet & hope it's enough!!! If the brains scramble 
first, does it matter if the neck isn't broken??
Nancy Mitts

>A young girl (teenager) who exercises horses for a friend of mine recently
>fractured her skull being tossed from a horse.  She wasn't wearing a helmet
>-- her rationalization  (she claims the ER doc said this) was that if she 
>had
>been wearing a helmet, she would have broken her neck !! (??)  For the life
>of me I can't figure out how that could be.  That's her story and she's
>stickin' to it though.  She's required to wear a helmet when riding my
>friends' horses, but she was at another ranch when the accident happened --
>helmetless.
>
>Sylvia
>
>
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