Trampoline Falls Injure Almost 300K a Year, Most Of Them Kids
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...