Trampoline Ups and Downs
Many people have strong opinions about trampolines. Some advocate them for physical activity while others want them banned from use because of potential injury.
There are potential injuries that can occur with their use and families need to understand the inherent risks.
The National Electronic Injury Surveillance System reported approximately 921,000 trampoline injuries from 1990 to 2002. The vast majority of these cases occurred in children younger than 18 years, and over 80% occurred on a home trampoline.
In 1999, the American Academy of Pediatrics issued guidelines recommending the elimination of trampoline use at home, at school, and at the playground. (American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Injury and Poison Prevention and Committee on Sports Medicine and Fitness. Trampolines at home, school, and recreational centers. Pediatrics. 1999; 103:1053-1056). Other recommendations were that in supervised settings or training programs, no one younger than 6 years old should be allowed on a trampoline and that only one person at a time should be allowed on the apparatus.
Various types of injuries occur and correlate with the age and mechanism of the injury.
The lower extremity is the most common body region injured in both children and adults on any type of trampoline. On mini-trampolines, children younger than 6 years were more likely to sustain a head injury usually resulting in a laceration. Older children and adults were more likely to sustain a lower extremity sprain, strain, or fracture.
Fractures of the extremities occur frequently, but involvement of the trunk and pelvis is uncommon. Groin injuries occur in 5% to 9% of high school athletes from a sudden acceleration-deceleration or directional change during sporting events.
The rare but most severe injury associated with trampoline use is damage to the spinal cord, especially the cervical spine that results in paraplegia or quadriplegia. The majority of these injuries are incurred during improper execution of a somersault.
The treatment of trampoline mishaps is injury-specific.
Parents and children should be warned of the potential dangers associated with trampolines and aggressive cheerleading maneuvers.
Labels: injury, trampoline
posted by Anonymous at 5:54 AM
5 Comments:
What?
HB,
I was following you (relatively speaking) until the last sentence. The whole post was about trampolines and their dangers, and then you threw in two random words about cheerleading maneuvers that do not relate to the rest of the article. Isn't it taught in 5th grade english class that you don't end by introducing a new idea?
Also, I'm sure we all appreciate the heads-up that treatments for mishaps are injury-specific.
I think the underlying message in this post is that your readers are idiots. Of course, that may not be an inaccurate generalization.
I know someone who knows for a fact that Bryant Hanson owns a trampoline distributorship in this area. Obviously, that is the only reason for today's post. If he was selling Holy Water, there would be something about the dangers of spreading infectious diseases through all that serial dipping.
You Catholics and pseudo-Catholics are nuts. Who dips serial in water? Blegh.
You are right, my proof reading skills in early morning are lacking.
I had deleted a paragraph about how cheerleaders especially at the college level use trampolines to practice some of their very risky moves and have sustained many serious injuries.
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