See my comment above. The one with two titanium plates holding together my cheekbone and stuff. Food for thought, I had no concussion symptoms after than. I walked from the crash site (with the help of my friends as a precaution where it was slippery and to take my bike down to the road, where I was picked up with a car) and didn't know I had anything broken until I was told about that in the ER. My eye got saved by standard riding glasses, that did cause some additional stitches and I was VERY lucky to keep all my teeth, but yeah, no concussion.
As for the impact, it was a faceplant into a ditch that was running half a meter under the ground I was riding on (got out of balance on wet roots) without taking account the vertical I lost by moving forwards on a descent as well.
As for the neck injuries Tim is mentioning, funny story, I faceplanted about a year earlier (just a slight sprain on my neck) as well and had an OTB and a head-on crash onto a rock with the top of my head in 06 (oh, the glory of XC days). THAT caused a severely sprained neck, but luckily no damage to any of the vertebrae. A full face wouldn't make a difference in the 06 crash, but it might in the lighter (the first) of the two faceplants. And it definitely would in the cheekbone destroying one, but in what way (net gain or net loss) is something I don't intend thinking about too much.
Jan. 17, 2022, 12:24 p.m. - Primož Resman
See my comment above. The one with two titanium plates holding together my cheekbone and stuff. Food for thought, I had no concussion symptoms after than. I walked from the crash site (with the help of my friends as a precaution where it was slippery and to take my bike down to the road, where I was picked up with a car) and didn't know I had anything broken until I was told about that in the ER. My eye got saved by standard riding glasses, that did cause some additional stitches and I was VERY lucky to keep all my teeth, but yeah, no concussion. As for the impact, it was a faceplant into a ditch that was running half a meter under the ground I was riding on (got out of balance on wet roots) without taking account the vertical I lost by moving forwards on a descent as well. As for the neck injuries Tim is mentioning, funny story, I faceplanted about a year earlier (just a slight sprain on my neck) as well and had an OTB and a head-on crash onto a rock with the top of my head in 06 (oh, the glory of XC days). THAT caused a severely sprained neck, but luckily no damage to any of the vertebrae. A full face wouldn't make a difference in the 06 crash, but it might in the lighter (the first) of the two faceplants. And it definitely would in the cheekbone destroying one, but in what way (net gain or net loss) is something I don't intend thinking about too much.