Accidentes de bicicleta atendidos en los Servicios de Urgencias. Estudio multicéntrico

Effect of the Safe Fall Programme on Children’s Health and Safety: Dealing Proactively with Backward Falls in Physical Education Classes

“…It is vital to establish the factors and circumstances that come into play in a fall [13,15], to lay out the appropriate methodological development to enable the automation of protected ways of falling backward. The results of this study are coherent with the more frequent types of injuries [3,21] and show that it is possible to avoid or reduce, for example, the intensity of the impact of the head against the ground, thereby preventing the most serious type of injury produced by a fall [8].…”

“…The Safe Fall programme is coherent with child safety in the event of falls as it teaches the process of falling backward by automating protective motor actions for specific parts of the body that are more often injured in falls [3,[8][9][10]: the head, the upper limbs, and the hip or lower limbs, amongst others.…”

“…Child development between 12 and 17 years brings with it more dynamic and complex physical-sport activities from a motor point of view (e.g., Parkour, mountain biking, and climbing), and this leads to an increase in the number and type of falls endured [15,20]. Together with this, in developed countries, children at this age become involved in more sporting activities, and many of them have an inherently high risk of injury [3,10]. The development of basic motor skills, work on turning, learning how to balance, and general dynamic coordination worked on through the theoretical basics of motor tasks proposed in the Safe Fall programme [16] prepare children to react in the event of a sudden backward fall and to impact in a safer and more protected way, as has been demonstrated in the study.…”

“…The study of falls among the school population has attracted a great deal of social interest in terms of public health, safety, and the protection of minors, becoming an important component of intervention in developed societies throughout the world. This interest in the study of fall-induced injuries and their consequences has been reflected in studies published in high-impact Spanish and international journals in the area of psychology and public health [1][2][3][4][5][6].…”

“…The World Health Organisation [7], drew attention to the fact that falls represent the second-leading cause of death from unintentional injuries among minors throughout the world. In Spain, different studies [3,[8][9][10] have presented falls as the third most common cause of death from unintentional injuries among this population (approximately 13% of child mortality). In first place are traffic accidents (23.7%), followed closely by drownings (20%).…”