Does wearing a helmet change the shape of your head?

[rootes]

My other half is convinced that my bike helmet (giro) that i wear quite a lot is changing the shape of my head overtime in the same way braces move teeth!


thoughts?

 

[marinyork]

It does, it messes up your hair!

 

[rootes]

It does, it messes up your hair!

I wish I had any hair to mess up! lol

 

[marinyork]

On a quite serious note I know someone who has allopecia who cycles occasionally. It certainly doesn't do anything to him although he doesn't go out on the bike very often.

 

[djb1971]

take it off when you go to bed to give your head a chance to re-shape LOL

 

[PrettyboyTim]

The pressure exerted by the helmet on your head under normal conditions is minimal. If it was capable of deforming your head from half an hour's use per day, imagine how deformed your head would become from resting on your pillow all night.

Don't worry. It won't deform your head.

 

[Riding in Circles]

The pressure exerted by the helmet on your head under normal conditions is minimal. If it was capable of deforming your head from half an hour's use per day, imagine how deformed your head would become from resting on your pillow all night.

Don't worry. It won't deform your head.

You have ignored the possibility of the OP being under the age of 18 months, although while I accept it is possible for young children to use computers I have to question the wisdom of parents who allow their advanced but still very young child to both date and cycle commute.

 

[numbnuts]

It does, it messes up your hair

it keeps my long hair in place, with no helmet it looks like I've been dragged through a hedge backwards

 

[Night Train]

I have a friend who's in laws gave her a hard time because her baby had a misshapen head from always wanting to lie with his head on one side. The poor kid has a large flat area of skull on one side of his head.
I don't think it happens with adults.

Could any change in shape be due to the padding in the helmet still being attached to your scalp when you remove the helmet? You will notice it as areas of black or grey with a velcro like texture on the outside.

 

[palinurus]

If it does then I'm not getting an aero helmet.

 

[PrettyboyTim]

Shortly after my son was born (I think it was probably the next day) I was stood holding him in my arms, his head cradled in my right hand. I stood there for a while - maybe ten minutes and then I decided to put him in his basket. To my horror, when I moved my hand I realised that his head, still incredibly soft, had been sinking into my hand, and he had the imprint of my hand across the back of his head. Each finger had left a kind of groove several millimetres deep. Luckily his head had returned to its normal shape within half an hour.

 

[domtyler]

Not wearing a helmet has certainly changed the shape of my head after slipping off on diesel this morning.

 

[Maz]

If it does then I'm not getting an aero helmet.

A chocolate helmet would melt, deffo.

 

[hackbike 6]

Not wearing a helmet has certainly changed the shape of my head after slipping off on diesel this morning.

I hope you took a bow when you did it.I always forget when I make a tit of myself.

 

[Maz]

I have a friend who's in laws gave her a hard time because her baby had a misshapen head from always wanting to lie with his head on one side. The poor kid has a large flat area of skull on one side of his head.

That's interesting. In the Asian culture, if a child is born with a slightly mis-shapen head, when they are laid down to sleep, the head is placed in a small blanket which has been coiled up to help re-shape the head...I guess the skulls of new-born children haven't fully formed (there's that weird soft spot right at the top of the head ).

No need to worry about a helmet altering your skull shape. If it is, you've got it on WAY too tight!