Trampoline injury threat
CHILDREN are being injured on trampolines due too many people crowding onto them, including drunk adults, doctors warned.
Research found 80 per cent of injuries were related to too many people using a trampoline at any one time.
Doctors from Ninewells Hospital in Dundee analysed 50 injuries seen in their A&E department over a six-week period.
The summer weather could see a rise in the numbers falling off, with the lightest people being more likely to get hurt, they warned.
Some 46 per cent of the cases analysed by the group had lack of adult supervision as a factor, while 64 per cent involved no safety net.
More than half of injuries (54 per cent) were on the legs, 32 per cent on the arms and 14 per cent on the head, neck, face or chest.
The research was presented in a letter published online in the British Medical Journal.
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