Some communities, particularly on the West Coast, have been successful in getting children to wear helmets. Helmets do save lives. The same types of injuries, and the same recommendations hold for these injuries as for bike injuries. We need to encourage children to exercise at least an hour a day. Injuries that occur during play need to be evaluated with that background.
Most common group involved is elementary school boys.
Develop an all-purpose helmet that children can wear when playing on the playground, as well as when riding a bike or skateboarding. Help encourage research into new and more resilient surfaces. In rural communities suicide is the leading cause of firearm deaths in children. African American children are more likely to be involved in homicides, white children more likely in suicides. Of course, many tragedies occur daily in this country when younger children accidentally play with loaded guns.