Have you seen any "hoverboard" injuries yet?

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So, a bunch of the kids in the my wife's side of the family got these "hoverboard" things that are all the rage now. Both my wife and I tried it... It's tons of fun, haha, but we both fell on our butts. My wife fell first, and then I turned to look at her to help her, and boom, I fell too. I mean, we completely wiped out.

Meanwhile, a couple of the kids were showing off going insanely fast on them and doing tricks that looked pretty dangerous. The boards can go up to 10 mph!

My first thought as an emergency doc is: great, now I'm gonna see a bunch of injuries from this. I'm really worried kids are going to crack their skulls. I think some people will actually die from these.

EDIT: Here's a video I found about "hoverboard" related injuries:



Oh yeah, I put it in quotes because clearly these are not Back to the Future hoverboards. BUT, gotta admit, they are still tons of fun.... and very dangerous.

Thoughts?
 
I've seen two broken wrists both in the adult crowd. Don't get on it after a few drinks...
 
Saw a nasty tib/fib fx a couple weeks ago
 
Can't be any worse than skateboards.... :shrug: ....Can they?
 
Most people that try and skateboard fall off immediately so it weeds out a lot of people with no sense of balance and tends to create contusions but not fractures. A significantly higher percentage of people will be able to stay on a hover board long enough to pick up speed before falling off.

First injury I saw from a hover board had that shocked look I associate with people that had been completely unaware they were about to be assaulted. She had a look of helpless bewilderment like the universe had just turned on her for no reason.
 
I definitely want one, how could any relatively coordinated person look at that and not? The thing is so close to what I envisioned "the future" would be like growing up. That being said, I make a living with my hands and have enough potentially injurious hobbies (and high deductable health insurance).

I'm sure they cause a lot of injuries. You've got to assume you're going to fall the first 10 times you ride a bike. How about jumping a wake board, skiing, snowboarding, mountain biking, etc? Heck, google segway falls, those are particularity nasty and they're not even intended to be fun. If I'm going to break my wrist, I hope it's doing something fun.
 
As I constantly reiterate, if it weren't for alcohol and gravity, I wouldn't have a referral base.

And since we haven't figured out how to turn off the gravity, and we all know how prohibition turned out... (just please, please stay the hell away from the K2/spice. That's getting ridiculous.)
 
I cover two EDs. One is a lower acuity ED and we have one there that we play around on if things are slow. No injuries yet.
 
39yo 240lb-er fell off one yesterday and ended up with an ICH - the moral of the story, don't ride these if you're fat and old
 
Christmas Day = several pediatric pts with bad fractures from these.
 
Christmas Day: 7yo girl opens a hoverboard, gets on, immediately falls off...elbow dislocation and fracture.
 
Christmas Day - mother trying son's hoverboard -> head trauma with LOC, wound up just a concussion thankfully
 
Didn't amazon recall some of these for blowing up?
 
I saw a bad concussion from one of these. occipital hematoma. no ich. seems like people need wrist protectors and a helmet at least.
 
Eh, depends on where you practice. I've seen some very old 39 year olds.
Although, in my practice, 80 is the new 40... and I wouldn't be surprised to see an 85 year old fall off one.

One of my medic's mom fell off one and broke her arm just last week. I'm sure we haven't even seen the beginning of this.
 
4 in a row christmas day. All with fractures, including 1 who needed to go to the OR for a bad bimalleolar fx
 
Enjoy the one and only Mr. Mike Tyson on the hoverboard lol, def worth the 30 seconds of your life lol!!!
 
TheBlueBlazer said:
was hoping to rile some folks up with that, but the lack of opposition is a bit disappointing
Click to expand...

BRB. Will write in depth post about my opposition to your words as soon as I get some kids off my lawn.
 
10 year old skull fracture and epidural last night. The girl's mom didn't want to get one for her because they "aren't safe". So girl borrowed her friend's.
 
Christmas day was busy with these injuries. Multiple wrist fractures. We also had a grandfather try to "impress" his grandson and ended up with a subdural.
 
I've been working in a hospital for a week and just today saw a patient in the ICU from a hoverboard injury, he fell and has brain damage
 
Saw an case yesterday with a woman who uses her daughters new hoverboard and fell. Shattered her rt radius and ulna
 
One of my nurses brought one in the other day. I took my shoes off, got on it, did a lap around the ED, and easily stepped off. I guess if you have no coordination these might be dangerous. Probably shouldn't let you walk down the hall by yourself though because a hoverboard isn't much harder. I mean, I knew I'd have to work at it if I wanted to go 10 mph or try some cool tricks or something, but to just ride it? Get some balance man.
 
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