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In spring and summer you can meet a lot of girls and boys in the street, moving on roller skates of different designs. Young scooters can be seen in the most unexpected places: on a dirt road and carriageway of the street, in parks and on subway escalators, even in the trolley or bus.

Recently, roller-skating has made its run. There is an impression that having roller-skates is a blue dream of every young person. Roller-skates were invented about 240 years ago. Their story began in the second half of the eighteenth century in Belgium. The Belgians made a presentation in the capital of the British Empire. The first indoor skating rink appeared in London only in the first half of the nineteenth century.

Where to skate?

If you bought your child a pair of roller skates, then, before they try them tell your child where to skate:
Do not ride a roller on the ground, on road, in transport or in the cabin of the subway train, as well as on the stairs or on the escalators.
The best place for skating is somewhere in the park, at the stadium or in the yard if the yard is quiet and there are no cars there.
Children of preschool and primary school age should skate under the care of parents.

Where to buy roller skates?

The best place is a special shop or sporting goods department, where the clerk sells the goods and helps you choose the best pair, tells how to brake. When buying, pay attention to the smooth sliding of rollers, reliable fixation of the feet in shoes. It’s better to know the existence of guarantees for the goods and the replacement of parts.
Together with roller-skates it’s better to buy a set of remedies. It should include knee and elbow plates, and preferably a plastic helmet. Now, many manufacturers produce skates together with remedies against injures.

Types of injuries and protective equipment

The list of remedies to prevent the most dangerous types of injury, which children often have when skating:
Bruises and concussion. Helmet can protect your child from these.
Bruises and abrasions of hands and feet, as well as dislocations of the forearm bones and ligaments stretching of joints, are sometimes combined with rupture of ligaments. To protect the child from these injuries, it is necessary to wind elastic bandage round his wrist.
Falling on the elongated arm is often not only a dislocation in the elbow joint, but also a fracture of the neck of the humerus. This is a very dangerous injury: even a qualified traumatologist during surgery not always assembles the joint.
When falling on knees you can have three types of injuries: injury of knee joint, sometimes with subsequent hemorrhage into it; fracture, which can lead to limitation of flexion in the knee joint, meniscus and ligament injury of the arthroplasty. Such injuries are treated long and may last even several years. To prevent these there are knee plates.
Another terrible injury is a fracture. This occurs when the leg is not fixed in the boot and when the child falls the leg turns inside. This injury is treated for a long time, later there should be the restriction of mobility of joints, severe pain when walking and weather changes. To avoid such an injury, you must carefully choose the shoes on the foot and check that shoe ties were securely fastened.
When skating on rollers the child must be assembled and very careful. While skating, they can fall back. This can result in coccyx contusion, pelvic fractures and spinal injuries. Unfortunately, the remedy for avoiding such injures has not yet been invented.