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Pediatric outdoor recreational injuries


Tips to Prevent Sports Injuries in Children & Teens

As pediatricians, we advise young athletes to avoid specializing in one sport. It's best to play a variety of sports to avoid injuries we often ...

Backyard Safety - Nationwide Children's Hospital

Falls are the leading cause of injury among children. The most serious falls ... Keep children at least 3 feet away from the grill, outdoor cooking equipment, and ...

Results and Implications of the National Kids Survey

Though existing literature suggests that children's outdoor play and outdoor recreation activities— ... Safety and injury/health concerns were more ...

Sports Injury Prevention Tips from the American Academy of Pediatrics

Injury occurs when excessive stress is placed on tendons, joints, bones and muscle. In a growing child, point tenderness over a bone should be ...

Sports Injury Statistics | Johns Hopkins Medicine

Injury rates: · More than 3.5 million children ages 14 and younger get hurt annually playing sports or participating in recreational activities. · Although death ...

Safety Guidelines - Sports Medicine Australia

The weather (both hot and cold) can affect children and young people's safe participation in sport and recreation activities. Children and young people are ...

Preventing Summer ER Trips: Trends and Statistics for Safety

Summer should be all about fun in the sun, but last summer alone, nearly 200,000 children suffered injuries that sent them to local emergency ...

Recreation Gone Wrong

Internal head injuries were the top for most age groups, except for children born in 2013 or later. This is in line with the rest of our study, which has ...

Can child injury prevention include healthy risk promotion? - The BMJ

SH is the sole author of 'Rewriting the ground rules for outdoor play spaces'. HT is the sole author of 'Bubble-wrapped recreation—have fun but don't get hurt'.

Playground Safety (for Parents) | Nemours KidsHealth

Adults can help prevent injuries by making sure kids properly use playground equipment. If an injury does happen, an adult can help the child and give any ...

Playground Safety

It is estimated that close to 220,000 children 14 or under went to the ER for injuries associated with playground equipment in 2009. 57% of estimated playground ...

Outdoor Play and Safety for Children in ECE - FrontlineER Dallas

Before engaging in water activities, it's important to understand how to avoid recreational water-related injuries and illnesses. Water play ...

A Perfect 10 Winter Sports Safety Tips

Common winter sports injuries include fractures, sprains, strains, concussions and joint dislocations. The location of the injuries varies from sport to sport.

Outdoor Recreation First Aid Must-Haves - micromend Skin Closure

Another occasional mishap while adventuring in the great outdoors involves musculoskeletal injuries. Collisions, falls, bumps, strained muscles, ...

Preventable Playtime Injuries | Children's Healthcare of Atlanta

Slips, falls, bumps and bruises aren't uncommon when kids are playing outdoors or on the playground. But some playtime activities can put your child at risk ...

Barriers to Outdoor Play | More Good Days with Kids

Kids are too busy with other recreational activities; Children's time ... Outdoor recreation options are too expensive; Outdoor areas too ...

Playground Safety

Nearly 80% of playground injuries are caused by falls. Watch out for these potential hazards when taking kids to the playground, and report any hazards ...

Winter Sports Safety and Injury Prevention Tips

Know your child's limits and reinforce the importance of them staying on appropriate level runs. Many skiing and snowboarding injuries occur due ...

Pediatric sport and nonsport concussions presenting to emergency ...

... injury; children; adolescent; emergency department; sports. Pediatric ... The proportion of concussions sustained in an indoor or outdoor sports area ...

Recreational Activities and Childhood Injuries

Bicycle riding. The greatest number of recreational injuries to children occurs while the child is riding a bicycle. Most of these 415,000 injures are bruises ( ...