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Keep Kids Off Trampolines, Doctors Warn

National pediatricians group blames the devices for nearly 100,000 emergency-room trips a year.

Warning: Trampolines may be hazardous to your kid's health.

So says the American Academy of Pediatrics, which reports the bouncy devices cause about 100,000 ER trips a year.

The doctors group said 75 percent of injuries occur when multiple people are using a trampoline at the same time.

And safety upgrades don't seem to help much. "As best we can tell, the addition of safety nets and padding has actually not changed the injuries we have seen," Dr. Susannah Briskin told Reuters.

For more details, including a trampoline manufacturer's rebuttal, click here or here.

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