| Golf analysts have embraced the goal to
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| | required to wear helmets. Horseback
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| Make Sports Safer (and maybe sell a
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| | riders are required to wear helmets, and
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| bunch of specialized safety equipment in
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| | according to this study, horseback riding
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| the process). The most common golf injury
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| | is not one of the top two causes of head
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| reported to the emergency rooms across
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| | injuries to children. Why not golf?
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| the country is from the ball or the club
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| | Well,other than that it is hard to
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| actually impacting the face or head. This
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| | imagine a hard helmet in place of one of
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| finding led to a study by Janda reported
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| | those little plaid berets... The golf
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| in Golf Digest magazine in which an
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| | fashion police would simply not allow it.
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| automobile crash dummy took a vacation at
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| | All kidding aside, take a look at these
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| the golf course. Using a golf ball
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| | numbers. These doctors reviewed 2,546
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| machine to propel the ball, the dummy was
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| | patients over a 7 year period. Only 15
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| hit in the head, chest and arm. Then
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| | of the injuries were golf related. Now
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| computer equipment recorded the impact
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| | look at the causes of the injuries.
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| data from the dummy's load cells to
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| | Seven of the golf injuries were caused by
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| determine the extent of the golf injury.
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| | golf cart accidents, seven by golf clubs
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| Janda found that most of the simulated
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| | and one by a golf ball. The seven golf
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| injuries could be serious or fatal unless
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| | cart accidents are actually automotive
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| treated properly and quickly. That crash
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| | and not directly related to the sport of
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| dummy was probably thinking "Duh! if you
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| | golf. Considering only the 8 instances
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| get hit with a ball or a club in the
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| | of injury by club or ball: only 1 in
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| head, it's going to hurt! Who's the
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| | every 318 people is injured on a golf
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| dummy here?" Hearing that people are
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| | course by a club or a ball, and the study
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| dying on the golf course from head
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| | reported 1 child died. That's 1 in every
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| injuries conjures up a picture of golf
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| | 2546 people. On the other hand, consider
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| balls flying wildly about, and frustrated
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| | lightening fatalities and injuries. The
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| golfers who vent their emotions by
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| | government statisticians tell us that
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| flinging their clubs, possibly stiking
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| | based on the NOAA publication Storm
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| unsuspecting passersby! This is so far
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| | Datathat over the last 36 years, there
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| from the truth as to be ludicrous. The
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| | have been an average of 90 lightening
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| fact is that the people whose deaths have
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| | deaths and 300 injuries from lightning in
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| been reported as golf Injuries were
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| | the US annually. In 2002 there were There
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| essentially unsupervised children, not
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| | were 97,900 accidental deaths in the US.
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| adults, and there are very few of them.
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| | Lighting is the most stable of all the
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| Here are some numbers compiled by
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| | weather related accident statistics, so
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| pediatric neurosurgeons at the Medical
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| | assuming 90 deaths by lightning in 2002,
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| College of Georgia in Augusta between
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| | that is 1 in every 1087 people.
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| 1996 and 2002. A review of 2,546
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| | Comparing the potential for death by
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| patients under age 19 revealed 64
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| | lightning ro death by golf related
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| sports-related injuries, 15 of which were
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| | injury, you have twice as much chance as
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| golf-related. Seven of the golf injuries
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| | dying from lightning than from a golf
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| were caused by golf cart accidents, seven
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| | injury on a golf course. The bottom line
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| by golf clubs and one by a golf ball, A
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| | is that golf is a safe sport.
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| report by Dr. Scott Y. Rahimi,
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| | Researchers who are trying to dip into
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| neurosurgery resident and lead author on
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| | the grant money available for safety
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| the study published in the March issue of
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| | studies and reporting that golf-related
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| Journal of Neurosurgery states that
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| | injuries constitute a common type of
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| Seventeen bicycle-related head injuries
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| | sports injury are not doing anyone any
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| during that period barely beat out golf
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| | favors. We can only hope that some
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| as the major cause of sports-related head
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| | misguided government bureaucrat doesn't
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| injuries in these children. Wow, after
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| | read one of these reports and decide that
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| reading these statistics, any parent
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| | golf is the next area in which the
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| might believe that golf is a dangerous
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| | government needs to guarantee our safety
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| sport, and children should be wearing
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| | by making us all wear helmets on the golf
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| helmets. After all, bicyclists are
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| | course.
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