Aye that's more or less it. The helmet's essentially sacrificial meaning my skull didn't take too much of a beating. Got the sort of concussion check up thing at the hospital straight after and they seemed to think I was ok but sent me away with a list of symptoms to look out for.
Overall if you're looking at a new road helmet I cannot recommend the Oakley ARO5 enough.
If you're wondering about the MIPS thing have a watch of this: