eHealth Connection | Cooper University Hospital

Hundreds of thousands of children are seriously injured in bicycle falls each year, with more than 600 fatalities occurring annually. The Children’s Regional Hospital at Cooper offers parents these bicycle-buying and bicycle-safety tips to help protect your children this bike-riding season.

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Hundreds of thousands of children are seriously injured in bicycle falls each year, with more than 600 fatalities occurring annually. The Children’s Regional Hospital at Cooper offers parents these bicycle-buying and bicycle-safety tips to help protect your children this bike-riding season:

The Right Bike
Don’t buy a bike your child can “grow into.” Oversized bikes are especially dangerous. Children don’t have the skills and coordination needed to handle a bigger bike; they can lose control. You can tell that a bike is the right size for your child when he or she is able to place the balls of both feet on the ground while seated on the bicycle seat with both hands on the handlebars. Also, your child’s first bike should be equipped with footbrakes, not handbrakes. Children’s hand muscles and coordination skills are not mature enough to control handbrakes. Read the full story