The Risk Of Brain Injuries Shifts As Children Grow Up [NPR.org]

Samantha Sangenito 11/13/1412:00 PM

s children grow, they learn to crawl, to walk and then to drive. It turns out, the way they get hurt, and in particular their heads, evolves as as their forms of motion change.

Small children suffer head injuries from falling, while teenagers are at risk from car accidents, assaults and sports injuries, according to a paper published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine.

The authors, all part of the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network, analyzed data from 43,000 children admitted to emergency rooms for blunt force head trauma between 2004 and 2006.

[For more of this story, written by Alison Bruzek, go to http://www.npr.org/blogs/healt...-as-children-grow-up]

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