Injuries

The number of scooter-related injuries in the United States nearly tripled from 2016 to 2020, according to a study published in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons.

Firearm injury survivors often experienced recurrent firearm injuries, particularly those who were young, uninsured, male and Black, according to a study recently published in Annals of Internal Medicine.

In football-playing males, the number and force of repetitive head injuries as well as time playing the sport were linked to severity of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, according to research published in Nature Communications.

Men aged 65 years and older had a significantly higher rate of skull fracture compared with women after blunt head trauma, mostly because of falls, according to a study from The American Journal of Emergency Medicine.

Results published in the Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery showed corticosteroid injections have better short-term efficacy, while platelet-rich plasma injections have better long-term efficacy for patients with rotator cuff injuries.

Injury-related visits to the emergency department of children’s hospitals decreased by more than a quarter during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to data published in Pediatrics.

Serious injuries sustained in combat by male soldiers from the United Kingdom were associated with poor mental health outcomes, and the type of injury influenced the severity of the outcome, per a study published in Lancet Psychiatry.

Researchers at the AAP National Conference & Exhibition reported an increase in family violence-related injuries that involved alcohol, drugs, or weapons among adolescents who presented to a pediatric ED in Baltimore during the pandemic.

Peloton said it was recalling its Tread+ treadmill following the death of a child and dozens of reported injuries related to the machine.