Children can suffer orthopedic injuries in a number of different environments, but there’s one situation that tends to breed such injuries in droves: bounce houses. Kids get all sorts of excited when they see these at a birthday party or some other event, but when a bunch of excited kids of various ages and sizes start jumping around inside, they’re bound to collide.
A new report provides a greater analysis of this danger. One thing that might come as a shock is the finding that 65,000 kids sustained bounce-house related injuries over a 15 year span ending in 2010, with the number of injuries actually rising from year to year as time wore on. Concussions and broken bones were not uncommon.
About the author
Radiculopathy, colloquially called a “pinched nerve,” is a condition where the nerve roots coming out of the spinal cord...
