A single mildly bumpy ride won’t turn you into an NFL domestic abuser, but over the course of 20+ years? And if you were on horses or in rickety carts from the time you were a squishy infant? Boom, curdled grey matter.
No horses = no war, no murder, just pure enlightenment and peace on Earth.
Beware the horse 👀
How rough do you think riding a horse is?
You aren’t going to get CTE unless you’re falling off the thing. Horse riding is a pretty gentle event even when at a full gallop.
I googled “headstand on a horse,” and found an article from The Daily Mail.
People were less violent in the Wild West than in cities today.
https://www.independent.org/publications/tir/article.asp?id=803
https://www.perc.org/2005/07/17/old-west-violence-mostly-myth/
that’s not quite how that works. even at a gallop, you’re more moving with the horse than being rattled by it, and carts/carriages/etc. had suspensions to make the ride smooth (mostly for the rougher, unpaved roads).
even then, CTE is believed to be caused by multiple, sustained impacts/shocks of a magnitude greater than what one would experience while riding a horse. speaking from personal experience, none of my horse-riding (or even carriage- or cart-riding) ever came close to being hit by an NFL lineman at full-speed or being on a bombing range.
none of my horse-riding (or even carriage- or cart-riding) ever came close to being hit by an NFL lineman at full-speed or being on a bombing range.
To be fair, you can get concussion symptoms from heading the ball too much in soccer. There doesn’t need to be NFL or boxing type violence involved.
Clearly, you’ve never headed a ball in soccer. That’s quite a good bonk on the noggin, and still nothing close to riding a horse— which, I feel needs adding at this point: you don’t ride a horse with your head.
But now I’m reminded of back in the 90s before they banned the flip-throw and kids were breaking their necks trying it.
I played quite a bit of soccer back in the day, yes. It’s nowhere near the forces of a clash in the NFL, which is what was being mentioned as a typical example of what can give someone a concussion. All I’m saying is that it takes less force than many probably think. I’m not saying riding a horse gives you a concussion.
Fun fact: The Wild West was actually very tame and not very wild at all.
I wouldn’t call Amish people particularly violent, and all their transport throughout their lives is horse/buggy/bike…
