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It happened in our neighborhood. A tween girl was jumping on a neighbor's trampoline when she was double-jumped by another kid, fell and broke her ankle.  This was particularly heart-breaking because she was a star athlete and now, two years later, the damage may be permanent. According to newswise.com, t rampoline accidents sent an estimated 288,876 people, most of them children, to hospital emergency departments with broken bones from 2002 to 2011. " Including all injuries, not just fractures, hospital emergency rooms received more than 1 million visits from people injured in trampoline accidents during those 10 years, boosting the emergency room bills to just over $1 billion, according to the study," the Web site reports.   About 60 percent of the fractures were upper-extremity injuries, notably fingers, hands, forearms and elbows. Lower-extremity fractures most commonly were breaks in the lower leg -- the tibia and fibula -- and ankles. Just over 4 percent inv...

Men, what's being 25 and married good for?  Not that!  It's your bones .  Scientists have found that one-two punch strengthens your skeleton. According to newswise.com,  researchers found evidence in a recent study that men who married when they were younger than 25 had lower bone strength than men who married for the first time at a later age. In addition, "Men in stable marriages or marriage-like relationships who had never previously divorced or separated had greater bone strength than men whose previous marriages had fractured, the researchers said. And those in stable relationships also had stronger bones than men who never married." So does this mean you're doomed to dented bone if you don't have a partner in life?  That, researchers don't seem to know, or why being hooked-up is so important to your health.  But t he associations between marriage and bone health were evident in the spine, and alas, not the hip, possibly due to differences in ...