Summer fun
8/12/2008
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When the weather gets hot, kids run to jump in the pool. But, a new study says the joy of diving into a pool turns to trauma for more than six-thousand American adolescents every year. A new study, in the August issue of the journal, Pediatrics, says that’s an average of one injury every hour.
Researchers at Ohio State University, found that more than eighty-percent of the injuries occurred from a dive height of less than a meter. The most common injuries were cuts and bruises, but about five-percent of the injuries were serious enough to require hospitalization.
About seventy-percent of the injuries resulted from head-first dives and nearly twenty-percent from jumps or cannonball dives.
Most of the injuries were caused by hitting the diving board or platform.
Not surprisingly, the diving injuries peak in the summer months with boys more likely to be hurt than girls.
Researchers say that parents should talk to their kids about pool and diving safety and follow some basic rules:
*Never dive into shallow or murky water.
*Make sure there are depth indicators in or around the pool.
*And be sure your child uses proper diving technique.