Beware the ball pit. Ball pits used in children's physical therapy - similar to those made popular by restaurants catering to families - may contribute to germ transmission between patients ...

Are ball pits located in physical therapy clinical settings a source of pathogenic microorganisms? American Journal of Infection Control , 2018; DOI: 10.1016/j.ajic.2018.09.031 Cite This Page : ...

Arlington, Va., March 21, 2019 - Beware the ball pit. Ball pits used in children's physical therapy - similar to those made popular by restaurants catering to families - may contribute to germ ...

Study Finds Ball Pits Can Contain a High Volume of Germs and Bacteria That 'Could Cause Disease' The findings are "potentially representing a broader need to clarify and establish standards that ...

Ball pits raised eyebrows even before the pandemic, ... A 2018 study found “considerable microbial colonization” including bacteria in ball pits that had been used for physical therapy.

Ball pits have been enticing children to jump in since they started popping up in restaurant chains in the 1980s, but a new study found that kids are basically jumping into a sea of germs and ...

Researchers, led by physical therapist Dr Mary Ellen Oesterle, visited six ball pits attached to inpatient physical therapy clinics or outpatient clinics across Georgia, Swabs were taken from nine ...

The local ball pit has always been a major drawcard for kids around the world. Deals of the Week. In the know quiz. Sign Up. Log In. My account. Sign Out; National. Breaking News. Politics. Crime.

CHILDREN’S ball pits are teeming with thousands of germs that are linked to pneumonia, sepsis and meningitis. The dirtiest ball pit studied had an average of 170,818 bacteria per ball, while … ...

However, the ball pit area may be best avoided ... The study, which was published in the American Journal of Infection Control, looked at ball pits in physical therapy centres in the US.

The study looked at ball pools in US physical therapy centres used to develop kids’ motor skills – but ball pits are also a fixture of soft play.

The Friends of Jacob Foundation recently purchased and will deliver a therapy ball pit to the Macomb Intermediate School District’s autistic impaired classrooms located at Sequoyah Elementary… ...