Playground Injury Prevention Guide
Playgrounds are exciting, fun places for children. They can help to build dexterity, and they are a great place to make friends. Kids are marvelously inventive and use playground equipment in many different ways not intended by the ... [... more]
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Helmet Use
No matter what your age or level of experience, whenever you ride a bike, inline skate, ski, or engage in other activities during which your head is vulnerable to injury, a helmet should be worn. Children younger than 12 years should also wear ... [... more]
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Tips To Prevent Swimming Injuries
Each year, almost 150,000 swimming-related injuries are treated in hospitals, doctors' offices, clinics, ambulatory surgery centers, and hospital emergency rooms. For more information on "Prevent Injuries America!®," call the [... more]
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Elbow Fractures in Children
Whether your child is an active athlete or just a toddler jumping on the bed, there's a good possibility that he or she will take a spill at home or on the playing field at some time. These falls are usually harmless. But, when a child falls on ... [... more]
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Forearm Fractures in Children
Children love to run, hop, skip, jump and tumble. But if they fall onto an outstretched arm, they could break one or both of the bones in the forearm. Forearm fractures account for 40 to 50 percent of all childhood fractures. Fractures can occur ... [... more]
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Erb's Palsy (Brachial Plexus Birth Injury)
Erb's palsy leads to a weakness of a newborn baby's arm. It is caused by a stretch injury to the brachial plexus (BRAY-key-el PLEK-sis). The brachial plexus is a network of nerves near the neck that give rise to all the nerves of the arm. These ... [... more]
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Throwing Injuries in the Elbow
With the start of the baseball season each spring, doctors frequently see an increase in elbow problems in young baseball players. A common elbow problem in these children is medial apophysitis, commonly referred to by doctors as "Little ... [... more]
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Juvenile Arthritis
Children sometimes complain about aches in their joints. These aches could result from a variety of causes. But, if a child's joints are swollen for six weeks in a row or longer, he or she may have juvenile arthritis (JA). Juvenile arthritis is a ... [... more]
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Growth Plate Fractures
The bones of children and adults share many of the same risks for injury. However, a child's bones are also subject to a unique injury called a growth plate fracture. Growth plate fractures often require immediate attention because the long-term ... [... more]
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Pediatric Thighbone (Femur) Fracture
The thighbone (femur) is the largest and strongest bone in the body. It can break when a child experiences a sudden forceful impact. Take your child to the emergency room right away if you think he or she has a broken thighbone. Explain exactly ... [... more]
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Spondylolysis and Spondylolisthesis
The most common cause of low back pain in adolescent athletes that can be seen on X-ray is a stress fracture in one of the bones (vertebrae) that make up the spinal column. Technically, this condition is called spondylolysis ... [... more]
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Bowed Legs
However, there are other reasons for a child to have bowed legs. Blount's disease is a condition that can occur in toddlers (as well as in adolescents). It results from abnormal growth in the upper part of the shin bone (tibia). In a child under ... [... more]
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