Experiencing trauma can affect a human mentally and/or physically. It can affect their lives in major ways. Freshman Justin Schultz, a former football player, went through a traumatic phase in his life. Schultz went out for a day of fun at Urban Air, a nearby trampoline park. Schultz was jumping when his friend jumped at the same time and Justin landed wrong and injured his leg.

Here are his thoughts on what happened and how it will affect him mentally and physically.

“I was jumping on a trampoline trying to impress people and I went down to jump and my friend jumped at the same time and my leg snapped backward,” Schultz said.

These type of injuries are common for both trampoline parks and for home trampolines.

“I felt like my leg was snapping in more than one place and I could see it snap-in on itself,” Schultz said.

Justin was unlucky to have his leg crumble right in front of himself and his friends.

“I went to the doctor the next day and he told me he couldn’t tell what happened so he sent me to an MRI and that took an hour to do and I got my results back in a day and I tore my ACL off the bone and fractured the two other bones in my leg,” Schultz said.

Schultz shared his pain was very bad and he felt depressed he couldn’t play football anymore and was out for recovery for the entire football season. Schultz felt terrible he missed out on all the games and regrets his trampoline accident.

According to a 2018 study conducted by the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at the University of Tennessee College of Medicine the amount of kids injured 24mo-17 years of
age at trampoline parks is almost the same as those injured on home trampolines. The University of Tennessee hospital treated 439 patients in 2018 with trampoline injuries and of those 13% required surgery after their trampoline park accident.