Cellphones Related Injuries Are On The Rise
By Carrie Holt
December 7, 2019
WASHINGTON DC – Cellphones related injuries are on the rise in urban and rural areas. Careless use of cellphones are causing unimagaginable injuries.
Facial bruises, facial cuts, and even fractures are among the reported injuries. Tripping over street curbs resulting in face-down injuries are very common. Talking on the cellphone while crossing the street without looking both ways or entering the crosswalk without paying attention to traffic flow has resulted in serious injuries.
Local emergency room visits involving cellphones are now among the causes of emergency care visits. Walking and texting have resulted in serious facial injuries from falling face down on the street or pavement. “Flying cellphones” in car accidents have resulted in additional body injuries.
Texting and driving is a serious problem. Distracted drivers who try talking on cellphones have paid a serious price for having a cellphone conversation holding their phones.
Holding a cellphone and talking or texting has been seen as “cool”. Well, ask those hit by a car while riding their bicycle while talking or texting if it was “cool”. What about being hit while riding a motorcycle holding a cellphone if it was “cool”. No, would be the universal answer.
Emergency room data revealed 2,500 local patients with cellphone-related head and neck injuries from 1998 through 2017 according to JAMA medical journal.
Knowing this is a national problem can help everyone who may tempted to walk, drive, ski or skate while trying to hold on to their cellphone will now rethink about alternatives. Injury prevention is the best solution and the best cure.
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