Sledding causing injuries to kids
A lot of kids have been turning up in the ER with injuries from sledding. Doctors want kids to wear helmets for tobogganing now.
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steph 09:44 on 2021-01-08 Permalink
there’s a “Legault wants everyone to wear helmets to prevent covid” joke here somewhere.
Tim S. 11:16 on 2021-01-08 Permalink
I’ve wondered since the beginning of this thing what proportion of adult ER visits are caused by workplace or skiing accidents. Anyone know?
Michael Black 12:05 on 2021-01-08 Permalink
One thing, when you’re a kid, parents don’t take chances. Bang my head, stitches. Fall off my bike, stitches in the knee. Slice my finger in woodshop (I was helping a teacher move a big metal cabinet into the bench, and he slid the sharp edge over my finger), somebody “playfully” pushing me against a locker, fractured elbow. That was all before I was sixteen. Some of it because I was a kid, but as an adult I’d not fuss with stitches.
Except for those last two emergencies, I’d have gone almost fifty years with no emergency.
Bill Binns 12:27 on 2021-01-08 Permalink
Helmets? Some things are fun specifically because they are dangerous. Take away the danger, take away the fun. A total of 45 injuries represents “an alarming increase” in a city of 2 million people?
DeWolf 12:46 on 2021-01-08 Permalink
I’d wager the increase in injuries is directly proportionate to the massive increase in tobogganing. I don’t remember seeing so many kids out in previous years.
Meezly 14:32 on 2021-01-08 Permalink
For sure. The first real snowfall over the holiday was barely covering the hill when I saw tons of parents & kids at Parc Mont-Royal, desperate to be outside. I saw how quickly the snow got packed down. Then it warmed up and got cold again, making the hills extra icy.
I myself started off the new year with injury as a result of slamming against a hay bale with my leg at the bottom of that hill!
Kate 15:16 on 2021-01-08 Permalink
Meezly, I hope you weren’t too badly injured!
Chris 20:11 on 2021-01-08 Permalink
Children are antifragile. Eliminating minor injuries is likely detrimental overall, in the long term.
Kate 12:06 on 2021-01-09 Permalink
In theory it’s great to let kids hurt themselves and eat dirt and poke each other in the eye.
I’m not sure how one feels about this, if one’s a parent.
Chris 12:05 on 2021-01-10 Permalink
Yup, it requires parents to use their frontal lobes and not their gut.