Paintball and air guns account for one in 10 sports-related eye injuries and one-quarter of cases with vision impairment, a U.S. study suggests. While other sports like basketball, baseball and ...

To raise awareness of potential significant ocular damage and visual loss secondary to paintballs in those not wearing ocular protection and to report high incidence of chorioretinitis sclopetaria ...

New research suggests parents may need to take greater precautions when it comes to their children participating in activities using BB, pellet, and paintball guns. A long-term study, published in the ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- There's a new warning about a surge in recent paintball attacks involving people in moving vehicles and people walking on sidewalks. Typically, eye surgeons at the University of ...

HealthDay News — A first case of paintball-related blunt liver injury has been described in an article published online April 27 in BMJ Case Reports. Joshua Luck, from North Middlesex University ...

Injuries to adults and children playing paintball have tripled in recent years, including eye damage causing lasting vision loss, a study found. From 1997 to 2000, paintball-related injuries ...

BB guns, pellet guns, paintball guns and airsoft guns are marketed as toy or “starter” guns for children, but many are powerful enough for small animal hunting. Paintball guns have been popularized in ...

The study received Institutional Review Board exemption from Rhode Island Hospital. Data were extracted from the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS-CPSC) and reviewed for ...

NEW YORK, N.Y. (WPVI) -- Almost everyone remembers the scenes in the movie "A Christmas Story," when Ralphy asks for a B-B gun, and pretty much everyone, including Santa says "You'll shoot your eye ...

Choroidal ruptures are indicative of the severity of the blunt trauma and can result from direct or indirect (contrecoup) trauma to the eye. Direct choroidal ruptures lead to ruptures close to the ...

Paintball attacks have sent nearly a dozen people to the hospital with injuries in Chicago, reports local station WGN-TV. The attacks started in September, when two men were hit with paintballs fired ...