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From: Injuries from falls by older adults in long-term care captured on video: Prevalence of impacts and injuries to body parts

Fig. 1

Injury distribution by body part and a injury severity, b occurrence of impact to the injured body part, and c injury type. In a, numbers to the right of the bars near the horizontal axis indicate the number of severe injuries to the body part. In c, there were also 3 fractures to the head, 1 torso/shoulder sprain, strain or dislocation (SSD), 11 torso/shoulder fractures, 3 hip/pelvis lacerations, 1 hip/pelvis SSD, 2 knee/shin SSDs, 1 unspecified knee/shin injury, 4 elbow/forearm fractures, 1 unspecified elbow/forearm injury, 2 hand/wrist SSDs, 2 hand/wrist fractures, and 1 unspecified hand/wrist injury

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