Safety First: How to Avoid Common Hazards and Deal With Injuries
Learn how to handle the little and not so little ailments that befall you this Autumn.
We’ve entered the season of leaves turning color, the planting of mums, decorating pumpkins, and batting down the hatches for the coming winter. It’s fall, in more ways than one. According to Paramedic/Respiratory Therapist Mark Saia, this is a busy season for injuries, accidents and bug bites. “We encounter a huge rash of sports related injuries, as well as injuries from folks who have fallen off ladders while attempting to fix their roofs or clean their gutters before winter,” explained Saia. If you've had a fall and are wondering if you’ve got a strain, sprain or fracture, Saia has some advice for determining whether your injury is trip to the doctor worthy. “Sprains, strains and fractures all have pain and swelling. An actual fracture …
