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Head injuries

Pain vs Reward S1 E6

Despite mountain biking helmets being safer than ever before, head injuries still occur and can have serious consequences. Top riders explain how to reduce the risk after multiple crashes.

MTB
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Featuring

Loris Vergier, Manon Carpenter, Gee Atherton

Subtitles

Spanish, French, Polish, Portuguese, German, Japanese, Italian, Russian, Turkish

Release Year

2017

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Downhill MTB injury risks
2 min
Downhill mountain biking's elite talk about the new risks involved with the sport as it gets more competitive.
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Foot and knee injuries
5 min
Downhillers' feet and knees are subject to quite a beating on the track, but science is speeding recovery.
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Hand and arm injuries
6 min
Arms and hands can be injured often in DH mountain biking, and no one knows that like the pros.
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The broken collarbone
4 min
When it comes to injuries, there's one club every pro downhill rider belongs to: the snapped collarbone.
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Torso injuries
5 min
Athletes and doctors struggle with the protection and rehab of one of the body's most vulnerable sections.
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Watching
Head injuries
3 min
Top MTB riders explain how they balance the risk of head injuries with the desire to go faster at all costs.
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Mental fitness
4 min
Find out how DH mountain bikers deal with the psychological challenges of injury.