News 1130 featured UBC research that found children are better and faster at healing from injuries than adults give them credit for.
Mariana Brussoni, a professor at UBC’s school of population and public health, studied kids who visited the BC Children’s Hospital emergency department with a variety of injuries.
Researchers inquired about the children’s quality of life before the injury and followed up one month, four months and one year later.
“Their bodies are just built to be able to get over stuff really quickly,” Brussoni said. “Their brain wiring is quite flexible, their bones are, for lack of a better description, are more rubber than adult bones so they can fuse together quite well.”
