Accidents happen and kids get injured. But how can you tell if it needs an icepack, a physio or a trip to the emergency department?
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eParenting and Parenting in the 21st Century
eParenting used to mean keeping your kids safe on the Internet, however now it has a wider scope including parenting with the use of technology, and distance parenting. Curated by Peter Mellow |
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Accidents happen and kids get injured. But how can you tell if it needs an icepack, a physio or a trip to the emergency department?
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We accept the daily toll of road deaths and injuries as the price we pay to be able to drive everywhere, but it doesn’t have to be this way.
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James and Lindsay Sulzer have spent their careers developing technologies to help people recover from disease or injury. Their daughter’s freak accident changed their work—and lives—forever.
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The goal should be to take measures to avoid athletic injuries — or at least minimize their severity — and keep kids in the game.
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That being said, fireworks are actually kind of terrible.
They are certainly terrible when they go wrong, which is often: Last year, 9,100 people wound up in U.S. hospital Âemergency rooms with fireworks-related injuries. More than a third of them were children under age 15, and the majority of accidents occurred during the month surrounding July 4, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
“What do we see on the Fourth of July? Oh, we see all of the body parts that can be damaged by an explosive,” says Al Sacchetti, chief of emergency medicine at Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center in Camden, N.J., who has worked plenty of July 4 holidays in his 36-year tenure. “You see injuries to the soft body parts — the face, the eyes, everything from burns or abrasions all the way up to ruptured globes from looking at a firecracker too close while they’re trying to figure out why it didn’t light.”
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Year-round basketball schedules are putting young athletes at risk of knee injuries. “We are pushing our kids to the limit,” says one doctor.
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Hundreds of children across Australia are ending up in hospital emergency departments after sustaining injuries, including broken necks, at trampoline parks.
In light of this boy's injury, perhaps a mouth guard is needed on trampolines?
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The neurodegenerative disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy can start early and without any signs of concussion, according a study released Thursday.
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A new study finds playing tackle football before age 12 can have lasting consequences for the brain
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From iPad Necks to Text Claws, city’s physiotherapists are seeing an increasing number of patients with chronic pain caused by excessive use of touch phones and tablets. Worryingly, a majority of them are under 18.
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Sports Concussion Australasia brings you simple and effective sports concussions tests and treatment apps.
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Helmets and mouth guards don't protect against concussions, says an international group of experts
Mouthguards may not protect against concussions but they sure protect the teeth!
I think this quote from the article is very important:
"New advice in the Consensus states that children should not return to the field to play on the same day they experience a potential concussion, an acknowledgment that it may take longer for kids to recuperate from blows to the head than adults because their neural connections are still developing."
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Misbehaving adults and dodgy operators are being blamed for an alarming increase in the number of injuries on bouncy castles.