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A brain injury can be prevented by something as simple and as easy to wear as a crash helmet when cycling, it is claimed.

Legislation to force people to wear cycle helmets may the best option to prevent traumatic brain injuries from occurring to young people, according to Patrick McDonald, a paediatric neurosurgeon.

Writing in the Winnipeg Free Press, he said the hardest part of his job is telling parents that their child will never be the same again after the injury.

He said that in nearly all cases of serious brain injury the child had not been wearing a helmet.

"A helmet can make the difference between surviving an injury and death," he explained.

Bringing laws into force to make children wear helmets would dramatically reduce the number of cycling related brain injuries, he said.

There is currently no such legislation in place in the UK, where wearing a helmet remains a matter of choice.

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