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Interested in keeping your noggin’ intact?  Motorcycle crash victims who wore a full-face helmet were significantly less likely than those wearing other helmet types to have a

• facial-bone fracture ( from 26% to 7%)
• neck spine fractures (from 11.9% to 8.5%)
• skull fracture (from 10.6% to 1.2%)
• traumatic brain injury (from 24% to 13%)
• death (from 7.9% to 4.8%).

Did you know that only about 20 states require that all motorcyclists wear a helmet?  Michigan’s governor repealed a 35-year-old law requiring helmets considering helmet-wearing a matter of individual liberty.

This is a political issue that has huge economic impact to the injured individual as well as society as a whole.

For full disclosure, I am not a motorcycle rider but I do take care of patients who ride.