TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1980//
TI  - Bicycle spoke injuries
JO  - Journal of trauma
A1  - Mendes, D. G.
A1  - Moshel, M.
A1  - Roffman, M.
SP  - 325
EP  - 326
VL  - 20
IS  - 4
N2  - From our experience in the Emergency Room, we noticed that a relatively large number of children 2 to 4 years old were injuried while sitting behind their parent riding a bicycle. Their ankles got caught in the spokes of the bicycle's wheel, resulting in a variety of injuries such as skin laceration in the mild cases, but large hematomata and fracture of the distal tibia and fibula in the serious ones. After the initial treatment, a close followup was carried out until full recovery was achieved. In this paper we describe the mechanism of the injury and suggest a device to prevent it, and emphasize the long-term disability after this presumed "minor trauma."
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SN  - 0022-5282
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -