News - New German study demonstrates that wearing a cycle helmet decreases the severity of head/brain injury

The study was presented at the International Research Council on the Biomechanics of Injury in 2014.

The authors considered cases of cycling injury from 2 major hospitals in Germany. Amongst those who wore helmets the serverity of head/brain injury was much lower.

 - of cyclists wearing a helmet who had received a head injury, less than 3% had suffered a skull fracture or cerebral damage

- of those cyclists not wearing a helmet who had received a head injury, nearly 10% had suffered a skull fracture or cerebral damage

Head Injuries in Bicyclists and Associated Crash Characteristics, Axel Malczyk, Klaus Bauer, Christian Juhra, Sylvia Schick, 2014