There's nothing better than watching your healthy kids laughing and giggling while they run around, playing with friends. However, we all know with playing comes 'the occasional slip and fall'.
New indoor "parks" are all the rage in suburban areas around the country. While these indoors gyms and activity centers are an ideal way to beat the harsh Summer heat - or those cold Winter days, they can also be quite dangerous.
Over the past few months we have seen a higher-than-normal average of younger patients in our Roseville Family Chiropractic office with injuries sustained as a result of playing at these facilities.
From water slide parks, to jump centers, to indoor sports complexes, children's injuries have been piling up.
The number one culprit. TRAMPOLINES. While it's fun to jump and feel free, with each landing and launching comes a compression and stress to each-and-every joint, muscles, and vertebrae in your body. These repetitive 'concussions', coupled with mis-jumps or bad landings equals lots of aches, pains and possibly even greater injury.
If you or your children plan on attending any type of climbing, jumping, bouncing indoor sports facility always be careful.
Here are five tips to help ensure your trip to the indoor fun zone in your area is injury free.
1. Make sure you have the proper footwear
2. Stretch before and after you participate to help with your flexibility, agility, strength and balance
3. Stay hydrated so your muscles and body are properly balanced
4. Watch out for and avoid participating with too many others at any one time - One persons' launching pad is another one's landing pad and striking the trampoline at "off" times can really jam your body
5. Take breaks every now and then to allow your body to properly rest
All of these tips can help you and your family safe while enjoying vacation.
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