With the arrival of the holidays and the return of good weather, the sale of trampolines is on the rise again. It is a way for many parents to keep their children busy outside. That said, be careful, accidents are numerous and they can be serious. This is particularly true in emergency services.
After school, Leopold, 5, and Charlie, 3, have a great time on the trampoline buried in the garden. A good way to let off steam, but not always under the watchful eye of their parents.We let them play, I don’t know if it’s the best idea, but it’s true that we let them have a lot of freedom. And I assume that if they are warned of the dangers, they will probably be more careful.“, admits their mother, Maryse.
When our journalist asks little Leopold if he has ever hurt himself, he answers without hesitation:Yes, on my arm“.
Trampolining is not without its dangers. With the return of summer, accident patients are flocking to emergency departments, and not just children.
In the emergency room, we meet a father whose trip to the trampoline center ended badly.I was on the trampoline and I thought that after there was another one because there are many one after the other. But it was the ground and I fell on my knee and that’s the reason why I’m here” he tells us.
Bad receptions, falls, these are chain fractures that are treated here.
For Paule de Noël, head of the emergency department at the Cliniques de l’Europe, for children under six years old, you have to make sure that there is only one child on the trampoline at a time to avoid collisions and never take your eyes off them: “The little ones, first of all, have more fragile bones and then they also have less knowledge of the instructions for using the trampoline. They may have fewer reflexes to react to the elasticity of the trampoline. But I would never leave them alone, knowing too well all the wounds, the injuries that risk occurring when they are on the trampoline alone.“.
In specialist stores, the famous trampolines are seeing their sales boosted by the fine weather with ever-increasing security: “The posts in our house are outside the net, which greatly prevents falls and contact with the posts. And it also prevents contact with the edge of the trampoline, even if protective foam can also cause shocks or injuries.“, shows us Bruno Hulsbosch, the assistant manager of a sports store.
Additional attachment systems exist to prevent the trampolines from flying away in the slightest gust of wind.
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