The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Vol 77, Issue 8 1174-1178, Copyright © 1995 by Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc
Trampoline-related injuries
BJ Larson and JW Davis
Logan Regional Hospital, Utah 84341, USA.
Two hundred and seventeen patients who had sustained an injury during the
recreational use of a trampoline were managed in the emergency room of
Logan Regional Hospital in Logan, Utah, from January 1991 through December
1992. We retrospectively reviewed the charts and radiographs of these
patients to categorize the injuries. Additional details regarding the
injuries of seventy-two patients (33 per cent) were obtained by means of a
telephone interview with use of a questionnaire. The injuries occurred from
February through November, with the peak incidence in July. The patients
were eighteen months to forty-five years old (average, ten years old);
ninety-four patients (43 per cent) were five to nine years old. Eighty-four
patients (39 per cent) sustained a fracture; fifty-four (25 per cent), a
sprain or strain; forty-five (21 per cent), a laceration; and thirty-four
(16 per cent), a contusion. Fifty-seven injuries (26 per cent) involved the
elbow or forearm; forty-six (21 per cent), the head or neck; forty (18 per
cent), the ankle or foot; thirty-three (15 per cent), the knee or leg;
nineteen (9 per cent), the trunk or back; thirteen (6 per cent), the
shoulder or arm; and nine (4 per cent), the wrist or hand. Thirteen
patients (6 per cent) had a back injury, but none of them had a permanent
neurological deficit. One patient who had an ocular injury was transferred
to a tertiary care center. One hundred and fifty-six patients (72 per cent)
were evaluated radiographically, fifteen (7 per cent) were admitted to the
hospital, and thirteen (6 per cent) had an operation.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT
250 WORDS)
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