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Infant Walker
Aka: Infant Walker, Baby Walker
- Background
- AAP recommends ban on walker manufacture and sale
- Description
- Used to allow pre-ambulatory children to "walk"
- Rigid frame on wheels with attached soft seat
- Risks: Serious Injury
- U.S. Emergency Room visit data
- Walker-related injuries in 1999 alone: 8800
- Most walker injuries involve stairs
- Types of injuries
- Deaths (34 from 1973 to 1998)
- Fractures
- Closed head injuries
- Benefits
- None
- Walkers do not promote early ambulation
- Children using Walkers have delayed ambulation
- Delayed sitting, crawling, and walking
- References
- (2001) Pediatrics 108:790-2 [PubMed]