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A sufficiently large and soft helmet would mitigate the impact to the brain. The trouble is size. In order to spread out the impulse in time, the helmet must s
by ISL 8y ago
A sufficiently large and soft helmet would mitigate the impact to the brain.
The trouble is size. In order to spread out the impulse in time, the helmet must spread out the impact in space. There's really no way to do that by an order of magnitude without making the helmet much larger.
- Canadauni 8y agoThe point that the comment above you is trying to make is that a lot of head injuries aren't just impact related but can in fact come from adverse directional acceleration. Anecdotally, I've talked to people who have gotten brain injuries in car accidents without hitting their heads whatsoever.