The study aims to better understand how riders recognise concussion, what actions they take following a suspected concussion, and what factors influence decisions around returning to riding.
Done, hope it helps get some more awareness and information on it. Must be quite regular in our sport
Done.
Interesting to see a wider survey about how people in MTB consider all crashes rather than just head impacts.
Some people are incredibly blase about crashing seemingly every other ride. And bikes are so fast these days [old man yells at cloud].
Yes they can cover themselves in D30 and full face helmets, but that doesnt prevent concussions, or collar bones, or broken wrists, or...
Competitive downhill I can totally understand that being the norm - on a closed course with medical facilities. And the basic concept is repeated practise and pushing the limit of speed.
But for backcountry/trail type riding, I've always thought it to be a reckless attitude to take when:
a) you are a long time or way from rescue, and
b) a crash by definition you are out of control, potentially on a shared use or unknown trail.
Done. I've been on both sides of this, both as the one with the malfunctioning/sore head and the one trying to moderate the activity of someone with a sore head.
'If in doubt, sit them out'.
Timely. Just getting into my first experience of dealing with this (as parent of someone about 3 days into having concussion). Will take a look and would be interested in learning more.
Completed.
There was a typo and the possibility to provide a couple of potentially internally incompatible answers.
It was a good questionnaire that got me thinking that general knowledge of concussion and traumatic brain injury (TBI) may be even poorer than my vague recollections of first aid training from way back in the day and TBI research from a couple of years ago.
I think the title could have done with being more generic. It’s probably generated more responses from those that have suffered head injuries or have known others with injuries which might skew the results towards more awareness.
For example, I read the original post and went to the start of the survey, and thought that it looks worth doing later, and promptly forgot about it, as I’ve not had a head injury. Those that have had concussion are more likely to have completed it.
Still a massively interesting and useful study subject though.
Happy to respond though the survey felt more like information provision than gathering. I think most if not all the guys I ride with have broken bones at some point though I can only think of a couple of probable concussions. (And I've had a poretty serious one from other activities, upshot six months of driving). Maybe more, thinking for a second or two, but outweighed by more serious ride stopping (spinal) injuries. Pretty sobering actually considering that this is middleaged blokes pootling about on the moor, albeit over quite a few years.
