Sunday, November 13, 2016

Study finds exercise treadmills significant cause of hand burns in children

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-10/nch-sfe100316.php

Public Release: 3-Oct-2016
Study finds exercise treadmills significant cause of hand burns in children
Nationwide Children's Hospital

In recent years, home exercise equipment has become increasingly common, and treadmills have continued to be the largest selling exercise category by a large margin. However, this trend has also led to an unfortunate increase in treadmill-related hand burns for children, with estimates indicating that more than 12,000 children are treated in emergency departments for home exercise equipment-related injuries in the United States each year.

A study published by Nationwide Children's Hospital researchers in the Journal of Burn Care and Research has found that pediatric treadmill burns are the second most common hand injury after stovetop burns, are more severe, and require greater and longer care in comparison to other contact hand burns.

"We were alarmed by the number and severity of treadmill-related burns that we encountered in our outpatient burn clinic, and by the fact that these treadmill burns appeared to be deeper compared to other contact hand burns," said Dana L. Noffsinger, CPNP-AC, pediatric nurse practitioner for the Burn Program at Nationwide Children's and first and corresponding author on the recent study.

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