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If your kids succumb to the bouncy lure of a trampoline - and who can blame them if they do - they're better off doing it at home, research has shown.
Kids who use trampolines at play centres are more likely to be seriously injured and need hospitalisation than those who trampoline at home.The beloved childhood toy accounts for nearly 100,000 emergency room visits by children every year in the US, while trampoline injuries explain half of all emergency admissions among under-14s in the UK.
The analysis revealed a different pattern of injuries sustained at commercial centres and at home, and that children who used trampoline centres tended to be older than those trampolining at home. Kids using trampolining centres were more than twice as likely to sustain orthopaedic and musculoskeletal injuries as kids trampolining at home. Leg injuries were three times as common.
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