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Hospital warns 'Don't drink and bounce'

by mudricky | June 3, 2009 at 02:28 am

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A Scottish hospital has wanred that a study carried to why children are being injured on trampolines is because too many adults, normally drunk, climbing on to the trampolines while they are playing.

Doctors from Ninewells Hospital in Dundee said they checked out 50 injuries in six weeks that came through their A&E department and found 80% of the problems were related to the high number of adults climbing onto the equipment.

The good weather could see a rise in the numbers falling off, with the lightest people more likely to be hurt.
Some 46% of the cases analysed by the group had lack of adult supervision as a factor, while 64% involved no safety net.
The team found that 54% of injuries were on the legs, 32% on the arms and 14% on the head, neck, face or chest.The research was presented in a letter published online in the British Medical Journal (BMJ).

The doctors wrote: "The onset of summer is guaranteed to see family trampolines being dusted off and children attending hospital with trampoline related injuries. "RoSPA [the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents] reports that the lightest person is five times more likely to be injured.

"We have found that the severity of the injury also increases with the mismatch between child and adult weights.