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Motorcycle Helmets and Spine Injuries, Revisited
A recently published Johns Hopkins study concluding that motorcycle helmets reduce spine injuries elicited a response from a Maine-based economics professor whose own 1986 study suggested that the weight of a helmet could cause significant torque on the neck that would be devastating to the spine.