Internal Medicine News, November 1st, 2005
Sports injuries are not limited to the western hemisphere. Children working as jockeys in camel races in the Persian Gulf state of Qatar also experience significant trauma. The child jockeys have quite a distance to fall when they lose their grip on the saddle. Aside from the trauma resulting from these tumbles, camels are known to kick and bite. Data published in the Clinical Journal of Sports Medicine show that 275 children aged 5-15 years were treated at one Qatar hospital for camel-racing injuries between 1992 and 2003. The child jockeys were all boys; 21% of the injuries involved head t...
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