Children are more likely to be injured on trampolines at parks than on trampolines at home, study says
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You might want to think twice before taking your children to a trampoline park. According a study by the British Medical Journal, kids were more than twice as likely to sustain "musculoskeletal and/or orthopedic injuries" using a trampoline at a trampoline park than kids using a trampoline at home.
"The higher tensile strength used in commercial trampoline centers may produce a harder bounce which amplifies the loading in bones and ligaments," the study says.
Amber Worden, a 33-year-old mother of two, told CBS News correspondent Meg Oliver she shattered her lower leg bones while jumping at Defy Trampoline Park in Flint, Michigan, in May.
Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.