Why you need to mount the TV?

Toronto researchers found that toddlers between the ages of 1 and 3 years often suffered neck and head injuries, which could be fatal, according to the report published in the Journal of Neurosurgery Pediatrics.

“As a hazard in the home, it’s the perfect storm,” says the study’s lead author, Dr. Michael Cusimano, a professor of neurology, education and public health at the University of Toronto and a neurosurgeon at St. Michael’s Hospital. “Kids are left unsupervised around a big television that is not properly secured. And the numbers are going up. Between 2006 and 2008 there were 16,500 injuries and between 2008 and 2010 there were 19,200. If you look at the sales of these TVs there’s a parallel increase.” To get a better sense of the cause of the accidents and how they might be prevented, Cusimano and his coauthor scoured the medical literature looking for studies that examined injuries caused by TVs. One of the most telling statistics they found was that 84 percent of the injuries occurred at home and three-fourths of them had not been witnessed by adult caregivers.

As for environmental changes, Cusimano suggests that people mount TVs on the wall, or if they can’t do that, secure the TV to the furniture it’s sitting on. “There are lots of things you can do immediately,” he adds. “Use proper furniture for the TV. Set it back so it’s not near the edge where its center of gravity will make it unstable. And use lower stands.” “It just takes five minutes to anchor TVs and furniture to the wall,” Wolfson says. “The consequences of children playing and climbing on unstable, unanchored furniture are tragic.”

How to mount a TV?

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