Dr. Christina Johns
Senior Medical Advisor, PM Pediatrics
I see A LOT of ankle injuries. It hit me yesterday, after having written over 120 blogs so far, that none of them is about ankle injuries. Can you believe that? Out of all the musculoskeletal trauma that I see in my practice, probably ankle injuries are the most common. They occur in all ages, […]
People do a lot of crazy stuff to try to treat their burns: everything from covering them with toothpaste to cracking an egg over top of them. (Not making this up.) Burns are a thermal injury to the skin and are fairly common; the CDC reports that about 300 children in the US age 0-19 […]
Just like the holidays, injuries and hazards have a seasonal aspect to them. In the winter there are sledding injuries and car crashes due to snow and ice (obvi), and in the spring and fall as kids’ activities are in full swing there are lots of sports injuries like sprains and fractures. Summer is no […]
