Trampolines are wildly dangerous things. In the US, they kill about two people per year with about a 100,000 people treated in the ER each year. Especially during the covid pandemic those spiked.
Basically, if you wanted to legally sell a child-maiming device with a 100,000 victims per year, the trampoline certainly is a nice invention for it…
I’m honestly surprised they haven’t been banned or neutered, just like s lot of other cool toys that we used to play with. I’m from the era of metal slides, no rubber tiles, lawn darts, chemistry sets and all sorts of shooting toys. And if it wasn’t inherently dangerous, we found ways to make it so.
Ever shot a Super Soaker with a glass bottle instead of a plastic one? We did. That’s why they don’t let you do that anymore…
The good thing is, kids grow up in a much safer world than we did.
The bad thing is, the kids grow up in a much safer world than we did….
I wasn’t killed by a trampoline, but last year I went to a trampoline park with some friends and my back started randomly hurting.
A month later, still in pain, I decide to get it checked by a doctor and turns out my back was broken. Fun! I had to get surgery and now I have cement in my back.
It was so weird (I’m young and healthy) that my doctors seriously considered it might be cancer. But I’ve done tests and it wasn’t cancer, just trampolines.
Back issues are no joke, and you certainly don’t need to be an old person to get them.
Humans can take a reasonable amount of abuse, but you won’t know your exact limit until you’ve gone past it and injured yourself. Good on you for getting help soon’ish though. That’s not the sort of issue that goes away on its own.
I know they’re dangerous, but they’re still so fun! Jumping off trees onto trampolines at a friend’s house is a core memory of mine, but I’m sure there was an not insignificant change of injury or death each time.
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