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Healthy Living: Kids and Trauma

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The statistics are scary.

The number of kids requiring hospital treatment each year for physical assault-related injuries can fill every seat in nine stadiums.

19 percent of those injured kids have post-traumatic-stress disorder.

For some kids the traumatic stress is short-term.

For others, it has a long-term impact.

Katie Boomgaard has some tips for parents.

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