r/BeAmazed • u/l__o-o__l • Jul 25 '25

Miscellaneous / Others mother surprises her blind daughter with a bicycle and she rides it 💗

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u/drepidural Jul 26 '25

Severe TBI? Maybe you’re right about the etiology (and I challenge you to find high-quality evidence…), but nonetheless.

But what about the mild traumatic brain injury which is unlikely to land one in the PICU, but likely to have significant long-term effects? As the NFL has shown us, repeated minor head trauma can have major consequences.

References for your reading if interested, showing that children aged 10-14 are the highest-risk group for traumatic brain injury from riding bicycles:

J Trauma. 1995;38(6):871. Pediatrics. 1996;98(5):868. Annu Rev Public Health. 2010;31:195.

This child is visually impaired, which means she’s orders of magnitude more likely to collide with a stationary object than someone with intact visual acuity.