{"id":10877,"date":"2013-08-06T13:48:54","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T13:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brainstreams.ca\/the-fate-of-the-helmet-when-a-brain-injury-lasts-a-lifetime\/"},"modified":"2025-07-04T09:16:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T16:16:58","slug":"the-fate-of-the-helmet-when-a-brain-injury-lasts-a-lifetime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/the-fate-of-the-helmet-when-a-brain-injury-lasts-a-lifetime\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fate of the Helmet: When a Brain Injury Lasts a Lifetime"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field field-type-link field-field-link-original-article\">Recently, the city sold part of its citizen&#8217;s birthright for\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnyc.org\/blogs\/transportation-nation\/2012\/may\/07\/breaking-citibank-is-sponsor-of-nyc-bike-share-citibike\/\" target=\"_hplink\">$41 million<\/a>\u00a0by granting a city-wide bike contract to an outside franchise. The initiative represents, in theory, a wonderful effort and one that will bring efficient means of exercise and transport to many New Yorkers. What&#8217;s a shame, though, is that the bicycles come without helmets and that rental is not dependent on allegiance to the appropriate safety measures.<\/div>\n<p>According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), over\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/traumaticbraininjury\/causes.html\" target=\"_hplink\">1.7 million Americans<\/a>\u00a0suffer brain injuries every year, many caused by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aans.org\/Patient%20Information\/Conditions%20and%20Treatments\/Sports-Related%20Head%20Injury.aspx\" target=\"_hplink\">bicycle accidents<\/a>, bringing billions in unnecessary medical bills and unquantifiable emotional pain. I am one of the victims of this oversight by our municipal governments. My mother spent 10 years of her life in a coma because she did not wear a bike helmet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/steve-mariotti\/the-fate-of-the-helmet-wh_b_3691692.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, the city sold part of its citizen&#8217;s birthright for\u00a0$41 million\u00a0by granting a city-wide bike contract to an outside franchise. The initiative represents, in theory, a wonderful effort and one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}