Just checking that this is ice hockey not field hockey?
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>58 people in B.C. sustained a spinal cord injury while mountain biking between 2008 and 2022. In the same 14-year period, there were only three such injuries from ice hockey.
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The number of mountain biking injuries in B.C. each year is comparable to—or higher than—those from stemming from amateur football across the entire U.S.
I don’t know, this just doesn’t seem remotely surprising to me? Most of the modern safety controversy about sports like hockey and football are about concussions specifically *because* these sorts of immediately devastating injuries have become really rare.
Hurtling through the woods at high speed is just inherently really dangerous! There’s probably something to be done about improving awareness about riding within your limits, but there’s only so much you can do to convince riders to actually do that.
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I see that this was in B.C. in particular, is it a rowdy downhill culture there mostly?
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Here is my receipt for 2 vertebrae
Just checking that this is ice hockey not field hockey?
>58 people in B.C. sustained a spinal cord injury while mountain biking between 2008 and 2022. In the same 14-year period, there were only three such injuries from ice hockey.
…
The number of mountain biking injuries in B.C. each year is comparable to—or higher than—those from stemming from amateur football across the entire U.S.
I don’t know, this just doesn’t seem remotely surprising to me? Most of the modern safety controversy about sports like hockey and football are about concussions specifically *because* these sorts of immediately devastating injuries have become really rare.
Hurtling through the woods at high speed is just inherently really dangerous! There’s probably something to be done about improving awareness about riding within your limits, but there’s only so much you can do to convince riders to actually do that.