Residents of Kazan are injured most often on stairs and bus stops in winter
In winter, Kazan residents most often suffer injuries, bruises, and fractures on the stairs of buildings and crossings and at public transport stops due to falling on the buttocks or stretched limbs. Alexander Borodkin, a traumatologist and orthopedist of Traumatology Department #1 of Kazan Clinical Hospital #7, shared some facts at a press conference at Tatar-Inform news agency.
"The main places of injury are steps of buildings and stops of public transportation. Injuries can be both relatively light, contusions and sprains, and severe, such as fractures and concussions," noted the speaker.
The specialist added that there were many traumas related to the non-observance of safety measures by adults while riding on inner tubes last winter.
Older adults often have such traumas as fractures of the femoral neck and bones of the upper part of the femoral belt and arms, legs, and spine.
Earlier IA "Tatar-Inform" reported where children are injured most often in winter.